Shared psychotic disorders can also happen in groups of people who are closely involved with a person who has a psychotic disorder (called folie à plusiers, or "the madness of many").

Twin sisters Ursula and Sabina Eriksson shared a rare psychosis, "folie à deux," that drove them into a deadly spiral ending in murder.

Folie à deux - known as a "shared psychosis" - happens when delusional beliefs are transmitted from one person to another. Sabina's lawyers argued in this case, she was acting in such a way due ...

Psychosis can occur as a result of several factors. It may be a symptom of a mental health condition. Psychotic disorders such as delusional disorder and schizotypal disorder share psychosis as a ...

Psychosis often begins not with characteristic disturbances of the mind – delusions like paranoia or hallucinations – but ...

Discover the neurological connections between music and psychosis, from shared dopamine pathways to pattern recognition systems, revealing new insights.

A professor lost her—“voluntary,” as Yale puts it—position after tweeting about the two. The courts have dismissed her lawsuit. The psychiatrist who lost her Yale University position after tweeting ...

Selena Gomez's documentary My Mind and Me brought to light all Gomez endured privately, including a scary episode of psychosis in 2018 that led to her getting diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Here ...

Sabina went on to kill a good Samaritan who offered to help her after apparently suffering from folie à deux, a shared psychosis. The horror began on May 16, 2008, as Sabina and Ursula boarded a ...