• DOI:10.1177/0957154X9400501708
• Corpus ID: 2639651

Delusional misidentification

@article{Ellis1994DelusionalM,
  title={Delusional misidentification},
  author={Hadyn D. Ellis and Jr. Whitley and J. P. Luaut{\'e}},
  journal={History of Psychiatry},
  year={1994},
  volume={5},
  pages={117 - 118}
}

• H. Ellis, J. Whitley, J. Luauté
• Published 1 March 1994
• Psychology
• History of Psychiatry

During the period 1923-1932 three papers by French psychiatrists were published that each described a different form of what we now term delusional misidentification (DMI). Though these seminal studies have not previously been publicly translated into English they have had an enormous impact upon the ideas of Anglophone psychiatrists, psychologists and neurologists. It is likely, however, that few subsequent investigators of DMS have had access to complete translations into English of the three papers and, thus, may not have appreciated fully the authors’ findings and speculations. The main object of this paper, therefore, is to make available for the first time translations into English of all three works. We have also decided to precede the articles with a few biographical details on the principal authors and to follow the articles with a commentary on the theoretical impact their findings have had. The translations have been undertaken, it is hoped, in a way that both captures the flavour of the original presentations and tries to avoid technical terms that have no meaning today. The occasional informalities of style and inappropriateness of tense have been preserved in the interests of historical accuracy.