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Mirrored-self misidentification is the delusional belief that one's reflection in the mirror is another person – typically a younger or second version of one's self, a stranger, or a relative. [1] This delusion occurs most frequently in patients with dementia [ 2 ] and an affected patient maintains the ability to recognize others' reflections ...
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]
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."
The article describes an 18-year-old female with hebefreno-paranoid schizophrenia who believed that her next door neighbor had transformed her physical self into the patient's double. [ 3 ] [ 6 ] The syndrome of subjective doubles and its variants were not given the name delusional misidentification syndromes until 1981.
Intermetamorphosis is a delusional misidentification syndrome, related to agnosia.The main symptoms consist of patients believing that they can see others change into someone else in both external appearance and internal personality. [1]
The Capgras delusion is classified as a delusional misidentification syndrome, a class of beliefs that involves the misidentification of people, places, or objects. [2] It can occur in acute, transient, or chronic forms. Cases in which patients hold the belief that time has been "warped" or "substituted" have also been reported. [3]
Early psychodynamic explanations suggested that reduplicative paramnesia was not directly connected to brain injury, but arises from a motivated denial of illness; particularly, as Weinstein and Kahn [5] claimed, in those that regard illness as an "imperfection, weakness or disgrace".
impaired self monitoring — passive acceptance of inaccurate conclusions; faulty filtering — tendency to select salient associations rather than a relevant one; mnemonic association from routine thoughts; perseveration — unable to come up with an alternate hypothesis