Mitsue Shimizu, Yasutaka Kubota, Joseph R Calabrese, Motomi Toichi, Satoshi Kato, Hisamitsu Baba
BACKGROUND: Although many studies have reported folie à deux (FAD) cases, there has not yet been a study systematically examining patients' delusional statements. In the present study, we analyzed the changes in patients' delusional statements across the clinical course from the perspective of discourse analysis. SAMPLING AND METHODS: First, we presented a case of FAD in a married Japanese couple. Second, we examined 14 other cases of FAD from Japanese literature and analyzed changes in subjective pronoun (SP) use in each patient's delusional statements...
2006: Psychopathology