What does folie a deux mean?

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"Folie à deux" refers to a paranoid or psychotic condition shared by two persons, usually as a result of influence by one upon the other, and rarely as simultaneously developed delusions. When a paranoid belief, delusion, or hallucination is shared by a large number of individuals at one time, it is referred to as "mass hysteria".

A 2008 music album by the band "Fall Out Boy" is titled "Folie à Deux". In an interview regarding the album, Patrick Stump reveals that "Folie à Deux" comes from the French psychiatric term basically meaning two independently crazy individuals sharing a sense of inhumanity and making each other crazier. The record's about the current state of the world, humans' selfishness and not accepting what they have. The band uses the term metaphorically and in a non-serious manner.

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