Journal of Mental Science (1947) 93: 62-67. doi: 10.1192/bjp.93.390.62
© 1947 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
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The Depersonalization Syndrome*

G.Tayleur Stockings, M.B., D.P.M., Deputy Medical Superintendent

City Mental Hospital, Birmingham

* Read at the meeting of the Northern and Midland Division of the Royal Medico-Psycho. logical Association on October zo, 1946, at Winson Green Hospital, Birmingham

ABSTRACT

  1. The derealization-depersonalization syndrome and its clinical features are described.
  2. Its relation to the dysoxic brain disorders and the mescaline encephalopathy is indicated.
  3. The course, pathology, and treatment of the conditions are described.