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

Förstl, H; Beats, B · Br J Psychiatry · 1992

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

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'.

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