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The disorder was first conceptualized in 19th-century French psychiatry by Charles Lasègue and Jules Falret and is also known as Lasègue–Falret syndrome. trois ('three') or quatre ('four') and further, folie en famille ('family madness') or even folie à plusieurs ('madness of several'). The same syndrome shared by more than two people may be called folie à.

UK: / ˌ f ɒ l i æ ˈ d ɜː, - i ɑː-/, US: / f oʊ ˌ l iː ə ˈ d ʌ/, French: įolie à deux ('folly of two', or 'madness by two'), also known as shared psychosis or shared delusional disorder ( SDD), is a psychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief, and sometimes hallucinations, are transmitted from one individual to another.