Capgras Sendromu
Pakize Çervatoğlu, Niyazi Uygur
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5
Article Type :
Research
In this paper, following a brief description of the Delusional Misidentification syndrome we shall concentrate on Capgras syndrome. This so-called syndrome involves patients, often but not exclusively, diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic insisting that others have been replaced by doubles. Psychodynamic explanations will be reviewed before neuropsychiatric data are discussed. The advantages of cognitive neuropsychiatric approadı will be discussed.
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Dusunen Adam : The Journal of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences :
1995;8:31-34
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