SlenderMan Stabbing: when belief in a fantasy becomes Folie a Deux

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English - December 02, 2019 12:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 70 ratings
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We examine the delusional beliefs that led two 12 year old girls to try and muder their good friend.

References:

Dewey, C. (2016, July 27). The complete history of 'Slender Man,' the meme that
compelled two girls to stab a friend. The Washington Post. Retrieved from
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the-complete-terrifying-history-of-slender-man-the-internet-meme-that-compelled-t
wo-12-year-olds-to-stab-their-friend/

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Newman, W. J., & Harbit, M. A. (2019). Folie à deux and the courts. The Journal
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We examine the delusional beliefs that led two 12 year old girls to try and muder their good friend.

References:

Dewey, C. (2016, July 27). The complete history of ‘Slender Man,’ the meme that
compelled two girls to stab a friend. The Washington Post. Retrieved from
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/06/03/
the-complete-terrifying-history-of-slender-man-the-internet-meme-that-compelled-t
wo-12-year-olds-to-stab-their-friend/

Emery, D. (2017, January 20). The truth about Slenderman. Retrieved October 23,
2019, from https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/slenderman/

Howard, Robert; “Folie a Deux Involving a Dog,” American Journal of Psychiatry, 149:414, 1992.

Mohdin, A. (2016, September 11). This bizarre road trip gone wrong may be a rare
case of the shared psychosis called “folie à deux” in action. Quartz.
Retrieved from https://qz.com/777918/
a-shared-psychosis-called-folie-a-deux-may-explain-why-the-tromp-family-went-miss
ing-on-a-bizarre-road-trip/

Newman, W. J., & Harbit, M. A. (2019). Folie à deux and the courts. The Journal
of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 38(3), 369-375.
Retrieved from http://jaapl.org/content/38/3/369

Shared delusional disorder in the slenderman case [Blog post]. (n.d.). Retrieved
from https://www.swordandscale.com/
shared-delusional-disorder-in-the-slenderman-case/

Sharon, I., & Blenenfeld, D. (2018, December 27). Shared psychotic disorder.
Retrieved October 16, 2019, from https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/
293107-overview

Slender Man. (n.d.). Retrieved October 16, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Slender_Man

Soh, N. , Walter, G. , Robertson, M. and Malhi, G. S. (2010), Charles Lasègue (1816–1883): beyond anorexie hystérique. Acta Neuropsychiatrica, 22: 300-301. doi:10.1111/j.1601-5215.2010.00499.x

Stockton, R. (2015, May 16). A modern-day myth: the Slender Man. Retrieved
October 16, 2019, from https://allthatsinteresting.com/slender-man