folie

Le Grande du Saulle has given to the disease in which there is a morbid doubt about everything done, the name folie de doute.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

Le Grande du Saulle has given to the disease in which there is a morbid doubt about everything done, the name folie de doute.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

It might be read as another sign of the phenomenon I am calling folie à deux or codependency of marriage.

Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009

They addressed friends and colleagues from behind electronic walls of accusatory e-mails and confrontational blog posts, and their storybook devotion to each other slowly warped into a shared madness — what is known as a folie à deux.

Truly, Madly, Deeply 2007

Ballet enumerates a number of works upon so-called folie brightique which tend to prove that acute or chronic Bright's disease gives rise either to melancholic disorder or alternately to maniacal and melancholic disorder.

The Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1916

And they seem to share a disorder, known as folie à deux syndrome, and hence reinforce their irrational beliefs.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

Cindy and Casey together make up what is termed a folie a deaux, or "madness of two," in which two people share and perpetuate a psychosis.

SplicedFeed 2010

And they seem to share a disorder, known as folie à deux syndrome, and hence reinforce their irrational beliefs.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

Also, Kristin, when I said "Vive la folie," I did not mean to underestimate la "folie" of the frustration you experienced -- if that's what you meant.

avant-propos - French Word-A-Day 2010

Also, Kristin, when I said "Vive la folie," I did not mean to underestimate la "folie" of the frustration you experienced -- if that's what you meant.

avant-propos - French Word-A-Day 2010