1Professor & Former Chairman, Medical Superintendent, Principal, School of Nursing
2Professor & Chairman, Department of Psychology, AMU, Aligarh
3Senior Resident, Department of Psychology, AMU, Aligarh
4JR-III, Department of Psychology, AMU, Aligarh
5JR-II, Department of Psychology, AMU, Aligarh
6Research Scholar, Department of Psychology, AMU, Aligarh
7Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
8Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
9Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
10Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
11Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
*Corresponding author: Dr Mohd Asrarul Haque, E-mail: asrar428@gmail.com, Mobile No. +91 8755198534
Online published on 17 March, 2016.
Forensic psychiatry is a sub-discipline of psychiatry which is still ridden with intrigue, shadow boxing and uncertainties. Ironically, the insanity of the accused has to be defended by sanity in the court of law. Most of the time we do not have the depth of conviction about what and whom the forensic psychiatrist is defending in the court. More issues are being cropped up rapidly as this discipline is in the phase of transformation and re-modeling. One such issue is that of "shared insanity". Since this is an under diagnosed and under explored area not much is to offer at this stage. However, the authors took upon them to look in to certain aspects of forensic issue attached to this illness as corollary. These are extrapolated below.
shared insanity, partnership insanity, Husain-Usmani Principle, delusion, schizophrenia, Folie a deux
