Journal of Mental Science (1947) 93: 62-67. doi: 10.1192/bjp.93.390.62
© 1947 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
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
- The derealization-depersonalization syndrome and its clinical features are described.
- Its relation to the dysoxic brain disorders and the mescaline encephalopathy is indicated.
- The course, pathology, and treatment of the conditions are described.