Folie à deux
- Uniform Title(s):
- Folie à deux (National Film Board of Canada)
- Series Title(s):
- Mental symptoms
- Contributor(s):
- Lehmann, Heinz E. (Heinz Edgar), 1911-1999, on-screen presenter, interviewer Canada. Mental Health Division. sponsoring body. National Film Board of Canada, production company.
- Publication:
- Ottawa, Canada : National FIlm Board of Canada, MCMLI
- Language(s):
- English French
- Format:
- Moving image
- Subject(s):
- Shared Paranoid Disorder
- Genre(s):
- Documentaries and Factual Films
- Abstract:
- This film presents the symptoms of an uncommon form of mental disease, folie a deux, or induced insanity. It presents two patients, mother and daughter, explaining that the psychosis developed first in the daughter and was then communicated to the mother. The daughter expresses a number of grandiose delusions and delusions of persecution, ideas the mother accepts as reality. The film is targeted to the medical profession and allied scientific groups.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Copyright Holder:
- Source: Library of Congress Copyright Catalog (1978-present); Research date: 20230920;
- Extent:
- 014 min.
- Color:
- Black and white
- Sound:
- Sound
- Credits:
- Case presented by Heinz Lehmann; advisers, medical, George E. Reed, Charles G. Stogdill.
- Provenance:
- Unknown, in NLM collection before 2000.
- Technique:
- Live action
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101626468 (See catalog record)
- OCLC no.:
- 882608825
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101626468