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  2. Mirrored-self misidentification - Wikipedia

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    Mirrored-self misidentification is an example of a monothematic delusion – a delusion restricted to a single topic or theme. The two-factor theory of delusional belief explains why monothematic delusions occur. [1] The two case studies outlined above helped with the development of this theory.

  3. Delusional misidentification syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Clonal pluralization of the self, where a person believes there are multiple copies of themselves, identical both physically and psychologically, but physically separate and distinct. [11] Clinical lycanthropy is the belief that one is turning or has turned into an animal. It is considered a delusional misidentification of the self. [12]

  4. Monothematic delusion - Wikipedia

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    Mirrored-self misidentification: the belief that one's reflection in a mirror is some other person. Reduplicative paramnesia: the belief that a familiar person, place, object, or body part has been duplicated. For example, a person may believe that they are, in fact, not in the hospital to which they were admitted, but in an identical-looking ...

  5. Syndrome of subjective doubles - Wikipedia

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    The first patient with symptoms of Capgras syndrome, another delusional misidentification syndrome, was reported in 1923 by Joseph Capgras and Jean Reboul-Lachaux. This patient, however, also experienced the delusion of subjective doubles, [15] but the appearance of doubles of the self were not addressed until Christodoulou's article in 1978. [6]

  6. Intermetamorphosis - Wikipedia

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    There is an association in the literature between misidentification syndromes and violent or aggressive behavior. [3] [5] [6] [7] In several case studies, individuals with misidentification syndromes acted aggressively towards the object of misidentification, which has the potential for criminal behavior.

  7. Ideas and delusions of reference - Wikipedia

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    Validation rather than clinical condemnation of ideas of reference is frequently expressed by anti-psychiatrists, on the grounds, for example, that "the patient's ideas of reference and influence and delusions of persecution were merely descriptions of her parents' behavior toward her."

  8. Delusional disorder - Wikipedia

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    For example, in delusional jealousy, where a person believes that the partner is being unfaithful (in extreme cases perhaps going so far as to follow the partner into the bathroom, believing the other to be seeing a lover even during the briefest of separations), it may actually be true that the partner is having sexual relations with another ...

  9. Reduplicative paramnesia - Wikipedia

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    Taken from the Benson and colleagues study, the following example illustrates some of the core features of the delusion. In this instance, the patient had had a head injury after a fall in his home. The impact had caused a fractured skull and frontal lobe damage to both sides (although more pronounced on the right) owing to the formation of ...