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The Depersonalization Syndrome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

G. Tayleur Stockings*
Affiliation:
City Mental Hospital, Birmingham

Extract

Depersonalization, or feeling of unreality, is a symptom which may occur as part of several psychiatric conditions, such as hysteria, anxiety and obsessional states, and some forms of schizophrenia and endogenous depression. The true derealization-depersonalization syndrome, however, in which the unreality symptom is the primary disturbance, is a quite peculiar and distinctive condition, which has received scant attention in most psychiatric textbooks and which appears to be becoming increasingly common in practice.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1947 

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References

(1) Guttmann, E., and Maclay, W. S. (1936), “Mescaline and Depersonalization,” J. Neur. Psychopath., 16, 193.Google Scholar
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(3) Stockings, G. T. (1944), “Shock Therapy in Psychoses: A Possible Rational Basis,” J. Ment. Sci., 90, 550.Google Scholar
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