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Pseudocyesis Associated with Folie à Deux

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Gabrielle L. Milner  and
Gwilym D. Hayes
Gabrielle L. Milner*
Affiliation:
All Saints' Hospital, West Midlands Rotational Scheme
Gwilym D. Hayes
Affiliation:
All Saints' Hospital, Birmingham, Sheffield Rotational Scheme
*
∗Department of Psychiatry, Walsgrave Hospital, Clifford Bridge Road, Walsgrave, Coventry CV2 2DX
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Abstract

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A case of a mother and daughter who both believed in their own pregnancy and that of the other is described.

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Brief Reports
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 156 , Issue 3 , March 1990 , pp. 438 - 440
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1990 

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