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1: Br J Psychiatry. 1992 Mar;160:416-8.Links
Comment in:
Br J Psychiatry. 1992 Jul;161:133-4.

Charles Bonnet's description of Cotard's delusion and reduplicative paramnesia in an elderly patient (1788)

Förstl H, Beats B.

Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Mannheim, Germany.

An elderly woman developed the delusion that she was dead ('Cotard's delusion') and that she was in another place ('reduplicative paramnesia'). Charles Bonnet reported this unique combination of symptoms a century before Cotard's influential description of the nihilistic delusions and of Pick's description of 'reduplicative paramnesia'.

Personal Name as Subject:
Bonnet C
Cotard J

PMID: 1562875 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]