psychopathology Flashcards

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Fregoli syndrome

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A delusional misidentification syndrome where the patient believes that strangers have been replaced by (usually) one familiar person who changes appearance or takes on disguises

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Capgras syndrome

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A delusional misidentification syndrome where a person well-known to the patient is replaced by an identical ‘double’ who is not the ‘real person’

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Cotard syndrome

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Psychotic depressive presentation with nihilistic delusions (the patient has died or no longer exists or the world has ended and no longer exists) and hypochondriacal delusions (especially that their organs do not work, they are ‘hollow’)

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De Clerembaults syndrome

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A delusion where the patient believes another individual is in love with them and they are destined to be together; aka ‘erotomania’

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