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Towards an Understanding of Delusions of Misidentification: Four Case Studies

Author(s) -

Breen Nora,

Caine Diana,

Coltheart Max,

Hendy Julie,

Roberts Corrine

Publication year - 2000

Publication title -

mind and language

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.905

H-Index - 68

eISSN - 1468-0017

pISSN - 0268-1064

DOI - 10.1111/1468-0017.00124

Subject(s) - delusion , psychology , context (archaeology) , cognitive psychology , capgras syndrome , interpretation (philosophy) , cognition , developmental psychology , anosognosia , philosophy , psychiatry , linguistics , biology , paleontology

Four detailed cases of delusions of misidentification (DM) are presented: two cases of misidentification of the reflected self, one of reverse intermetamorphosis, and one of reduplicative paramnesia. The cases are discussed in the context of three levels of interpretation: neurological, cognitive and phenomenological. The findings are compared to previous work with DM patients, particularly the work of Ellis and Young (1990; Young, 1998) who found that loss of the normal affective response to familiar faces was a contributing factor in the Capgras delusion. The four cases presented suggest that this particular deficit is not a critical factor in the development of other forms of DM.

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