A case of Folie à Deux in two sisters is presented, in which the distortion of reality did not arise from one sister influencing the other, but from the fact that both already possessed repressed psychotic mental contents which erupted earlier in one and later in the other, and ended in a conjoint determined suicidal attempt.
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