Cotard's 'On Hypochondriacal Delusions In A Severe Form Of Anxious Melancholia'  

Oleh:

Berrios, German E. ; Luque, Rogelio

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: History of Psychiatry vol. 10 no. 38 (Jun. 1999), page 269-274.
Fulltext: 269.pdf (411.88KB)

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There has of late been some interest in English-speaking psychiatry in the clinical’’2’3 and neurobiological4’S’6 aspects of the so-called Cotard’s syndrome. A tendency can also be detected in American literature to use ’Cotard’s delusion’ for the isolated ’delusional belief of being dead’, irrespective of clinical context.3 It is not yet clear whether this departure from historical and clinical usage constitutes a scientific advance or is a mere misreading of the original literature and of the conceptual context in which Jules Cotard carried out his work. ’Nihilistic delusions’ but not Cotard are mentioned in DSM III-R;’ and neither term appears in ICD-10.8 The objective of this introduction is to contextualize the translation of Cotard’s lecture that follows.

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