Cotard's delusion or syndrome?: a conceptual history.
@article{Berrios1995CotardsDO,
title={Cotard's delusion or syndrome?: a conceptual history.},
author={G. Berrios and R. Luque},
journal={Comprehensive psychiatry},
year={1995},
volume={36 3},
pages={
218-23
}
}This report offers an account of the historical construction of Cotard's syndrome showing that by délire des négations the French author meant a subtype of depressive illness. Subsequent debate led first to the belief that it was just a collection of symptoms associated with agitated depression (anxious melancholia) or general paralysis, and later to the view that it might after all constitute a separate entity. At the present moment, and impervious to the fact that the French term délire means… CONTINUE READING
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