Open AccessDelusion of twin delivery in a post-menopausal woman: Another dimension of delusional procreation syndrome
Author(s) -
Ajeet Sidana,
Rajan Jain
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of mental health and human behaviour/journal of mental health and human behaviour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2543-1897
pISSN - 0971-8990
DOI - 10.4103/0971-8990.143891
Subject(s) - delusion , dimension (graph theory) , psychoanalysis , psychology , post menopausal , medicine , psychiatry , psychotherapist , menopause , mathematics , pure mathematics
Delusional procreation syndrome (DPS) consists of sequential delusions in every possible stage of procreation such as having spouse/partner, getting pregnant, having delivered a child (labour and childbirth), and becoming parents/grand-parents and so on. Till now, only few case reports have been reported and that is from the southern part of India only. Here the authors reported a case of a post-menopausal woman having delusion of twin delivery and propose twin dimension of DPS