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Schnucks folie a deux wine2/3/2023 Although this condition involves two people, it can extend from the original subject to three, four, five persons, viz. ‘communicated insanity’, ‘contagious insanity’, ‘infectious insanity’, ‘psychosis of association’ and ‘double insanity’. 1 Many synonyms have been used for describing this condition, which mainly reflect the idea of the condition's transmissibility, viz. It was described as folie communiqué in 1860 by Baillarger and as folie à deux in 1877 by Lasegue and Farlet. The term folie à deux includes several syndromes in which mental symptoms, particularly paranoid delusions, are transmitted from one person to one or more others with whom the apparent instigator is in some way intimately associated so that he or she and they come to share the same delusional ideas.
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