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Misinterpretation of Mirror Image of Self in Presenile Cerebral Atrophy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

R. E. Hemphill*
Affiliation:
Bristol Mental Hospital

Extract

Denial of knowledge of personal identity is occasionally encountered in various mental disorders. Temporarily present sometimes in hysteria, in schizophrenic psychoses it is expressed as a delusion that identity or name has been altered, and it may be a feature of the depersonalization syndrome. Seniles may maintain that they do not know or have forgotten who they are.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1948 

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References

Klein, R. (1928), Ztschr. Neur. u. Psych., 118, 789.Google Scholar
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