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Delusional Misidentification of Familiar Inanimate Objects a Rare Variant of Capgras Syndrome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

R. T. Abed  and
W. D. Fewtrell
R. T. Abed*
Affiliation:
Rotherham District General Hospital, Moorgate Road, Rotherham S60 2UD, and Honorary Clinical Lecturer, University of Sheffield
W. D. Fewtrell
Affiliation:
Rotherham District General Hospital, and Honorary Tutor, University of Sheffield; currently Top Grade Clinical Psychologist, Mental Health Unit, Basildon Hospital, Basildon, Essex
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

A 52-year-old woman presented exclusively with delusional misidentification of inanimate objects in the context of a short-lived acute psychotic episode. Certain theories are useful in understanding the formation of delusions of doubles in the patient (e.g. processes intrinsic to the depersonalisation/derealisation phenomena may have been aetiologically significant), but the actual choice of objects remains difficult to explain.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 157 , Issue 6 , December 1990 , pp. 915 - 917
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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