Use of Antipsychotic Long-acting Injection in Ekbom Syndrome: A Case of Delusional Parasitosis
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The Case Against Delusional Parasitosis
The body of knowledge on delusional parasitosis incriminates “delusional patients” as having imaginary external and/or internal symptoms that feel like parasite movements, dismisses them as psychiatric cases, and confuses cause with effect. The author is critical of these arguments and believes that the symptoms of crawling and pin-pricking are genuine; just misinterpreted as parasite movements...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bezmialem Science
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2148-2373
DOI: 10.14235/bas.galenos.2020.3589