Shared delusions of doubles.

نویسندگان

  • G N Christodoulou
  • M M Margariti
  • D E Malliaras
  • S Alevizou
چکیده

This is the first report of two partners in a folie à deux situation manifesting identical Capgras delusions. It is postulated that the Capgras syndrome developed as a result of interaction between a dominant patient with primarily paranoid psychopathology and a submissive one with primarily organic dysfunction. The submissive "neuro-organic" partner experienced a non-delusional misidentification that acquired a delusional component and developed into the Capgras syndrome as a result of elaboration by the dominant paranoid partner, who subsequently "imposed" the Capgras delusion on the submissive partner. The submissive patient, and, to a lesser extent the dominant patient, had evidence of organic cerebral dysfunction.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry

دوره 58 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1995