18Feb 2017

A CASE OF A SHARED PSYCHOTIC DELUSION BETWEEN TWO SISTERS.

  • College of Medicine, University of Dammam and King Fahd Hospital of the University, Alkhobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Shared Psychotic Delusion (SPD) is a fascinating yet poorly understood psychological phenomenon. characterized by the transference of delusions from an individual who suffers already from a psychotic disorder, to mentally sane individual or individuals who are in close association and relative social isolation in a frame of complex and dependent relationship. In our case present a case of schizophrenic young female that transmitted her bizarre delusion of misidentification to her mentally sane sister after a period of total isolation and in a frame of a complex dependent relationship. Successful management plan composed of using antipsychotic that had led to significant improvement of the primary schizophrenic patient and simple physical separation cured the other

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[AlAnood A. AlThukair, Dina T. AlAfandi , Faten A. Azzoni, Hawra A . AlJohi, Hessa O. AlOtaibi, Lina M. AbuGharara. (2017); A CASE OF A SHARED PSYCHOTIC DELUSION BETWEEN TWO SISTERS. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Feb). 818-820] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

Lina.Abugharara
College of Medicine, University of Dammam and King Fahd Hospital of the University, Alkhobar, Kingdom of Saudi arabia

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/3219      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/3219

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