Single Case Study: PDF OnlyMunchausen Syndrome in a Mother and Daughter: An Unusual Presentation of Folie à DeuxJANOFSKY, JEFFREY S. M.D. Author Information Department of Psychiatry, The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease: June 1986 - Volume 174 - Issue 6 - p 368-370 Buy Abstract The author describes a mother and daughter, both admitted to a major medical center on the same day to the same room, and both with a clinical presentation consistent with Munchausen syndrome. To the author's knowledge, this is the first report of Munchausen syndrome presenting as a folie à deux. © Williams & Wilkins 1986. All Rights Reserved.