This book explores the historical background to, and present-day understanding of, a
number of unusual psychiatric disorders. This fully revised new edition contains a new …

Ekbom's syndrome represents a relatively uncommon neuropsychiatric condition
characterized by the recurrent and bizarre fixed delusional belief to be infested by small …

Ekbom syndrome, also known as delusional parasitosis (DP) or delusional infestation, is an
uncommon psychiatric disorder distinguished by an enduring conviction of parasitic …

Rare and unusual psychiatric syndromes have fascinated people for centuries due to their
complexity and undefined nature. Appreciating their clinical importance and relevance to …

Pediatric psychodermatologic conditions encompass both primary dermatologic conditions
with psychiatric comorbidities and primary psychiatric conditions with self‐induced …

It has recently been suggested that delusions be conceived of as symptoms on the harmful
dysfunction account of disorder: delusions sometimes arise from dysfunction, but can also …

Introduction. Shared psychotic disorder, or folie à deux, is a rare entity characterized by the
transmission of psychotic symptoms from one patient (the inducer) to another (the induced) …

Delusions of parasitosis by proxy is an uncommon entity wherein an individual projects a
delusional belief onto another person who lacks capacity to hold the same belief. We report …

Folie imposée (trastorno de ideas delirantes inducidas) es una entidad poco frecuente en
psiquiatría clínica. Este es un reporte de caso de dos hermanas gemelas, que requirieron …

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 …