The misidentification of Clerambault's and Kandinsky-Clerambault's syndromes.
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Eponymic terms or eponyms are labels describing phenomena that reflect the name(s) of the person(s) who first described the phenomena. Using a similar term to describe different forms of pathology leads to a muddle. In this paper, we describe "Clerambault's syndrome" and "Kandinsky-Clerambault's syndrome" and discuss and clarify the confusion surrounding these different syndromes.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie
دوره 46 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2001