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Delusion of fetal duplication in a Capgras patient
J A Silva1, G B Leong, M Longhitano
1School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles.
Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. Revue Canadienne De Psychiatrie
|February 1, 1991
Abstract:
A case of Capgras syndrome in a pregnant patient is described. In addition to perceiving living family members as impostors, she believed that there was a double or twin of her fetus. She conceptualized her "twins" differently than the way she viewed doubles of family members. Her fetus may represent the youngest "person" to have been duplicated. The relationship of Capgras syndrome to misidentification phenomena is discussed.