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Shared Psychotic Disorder
( collective insanity,
communicated insanity,
familial mental infection,
folie à deux,
induced delusional disorder,
induced insanity,
induced psychotic disorder,
infectious insanity,
influenced psychosis,
mystic paranoia,
psychic infection,
psychological induction,
psychosis of association,
reciprocal insanity,
shared paranoid disorder
)
This psychotic mental disorder is diagnosed when delusions develop in an individual involved in a close relationship with another individual already afflicted with delusions arising out of a different psychosis such as Schizophrenia, Delusional Disorder or psychotic Major Depression.