This psychopathological syndrome is usually considered to include four main variants: The Capgras delusion is the belief that (usually) a close relative or spouse has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor. The Fregoli delusion is the belief that various people the believer meets are actually the same person in disguise. Intermetamorphosis is the belief that people in the environment swap identities with each other whilst maintaining the same appearance . Subjective doubles, described by Christodoulou in 1978 (American Journal of Psychiatry 135, 249, 1978), is the belief that there is a doppelgänger or double of him- or herself carrying out independent actions.Christodoulou G.N. Delusional Misidentification Syndromes, Karger, Basel, 1986Christodoulou G.N. The Syndrome of Capgras, Br. J. Psychiatry 130, 556, 1977Christodoulou G.N. Syndrome of Subjective Doubles, Am. J. Psychiat.135,249,1978
This psychopathological syndrome is usually considered to include four main variants: The Capgras delusion is the belief that (usually) a close relative or spouse has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor. The Fregoli delusion is the belief that various people the believer meets are actually the same person in disguise. Intermetamorphosis is the belief that an individual has the ability to take the form of another person in both external appearance and internal personality . Subjective doubles, described by Christodoulou in 1978 (American Journal of Psychiatry 135, 249, 1978), is the belief that there is a doppelgänger or double of him- or herself carrying out independent actions.Christodoulou G.N. Delusional Misidentification Syndromes, Karger, Basel, 1986Christodoulou G.N. The Syndrome of Capgras, Br. J. Psychiatry 130, 556, 1977Christodoulou G.N. Syndrome of Subjective Doubles, Am. J. Psychiat.135,249,1978
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people in the environment swap identities with each other whilst maintaining the same appearance
an individual has the ability to take the form of another person in both external appearance and internal personality