Citation

Lange E, Ficker F. Psychiatr. Clin. (Basel) 1976; 9(3-4): 168-182.

Vernacular Title

Doppelsuizid und symbiontische Psychose (Suicide a deux und Folie a deux).

Copyright

(Copyright © 1976, Karger Publishers)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1031918

Abstract

Symbiontic psychoses (induced delusions) are marked by 'solitude by twos'--together in alienation to the environment. This special psychological situation is dangerous and the foundation to develop 'suicides by twos' (double suicides). The relations between the psychotic partners (domination-subordination) change over to relations of double suicide (instogator-participant). The presuicide syndrome of such double suicides is described with two cases, one at the psychopathological borderline to a symbiontic psychosis, the other on the culmination of it (delusion of influence and reference).

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