Shared Psychosis Disorder - Glossary

Creator: Dr. Lakshmi Venkataraman
Keywords: shared psychosis disorder, Double Insanity - Rare Atypical Psychotic Disorder, shared psychosis disorder glossary, glossary for shared psychosis disorder

Written by - Dr. Lakshmi Venkataraman, MD

Medically Reviewed by - The Medindia Medical Review Team

Last Updated on Apr 16, 2019

Glossary

Psychosis: A form of mental illness characterized by false beliefs (delusions) and related behavior as well as the seeing or hearing of things (hallucinations) that are not evident to others

Emotional contagion: Phenomenon of one person''s emotions and consequent actions directly inducing similar thoughts and actions in others

Published on Jul 26, 2018
Last Updated on Apr 16, 2019