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Monosymptomatic hypochondriacal psychosis and prolonged solitary confinement
1University of Edinburgh, Department of Psychiatry, Royal Edinburgh Hospital.
Medicine, Science, and the Law
|October 1, 1994
Abstract:
A man previously imprisoned for 11 years developed unremitting and treatment-resistant monosymptomatic hypochondriacal psychosis following a period in excess of 12 months in solitary confinement. We are unaware of any other reported incidences of this disorder arising in such circumstances.