Charles Bonnet's description of Cotard's delusion and reduplicative paramnesia in an elderly patient (1788)
An elderly woman developed the delusion that she was dead ('Cotard's delusion') and that she was in another place ('reduplicative paramnesia'). Charles Bonnet reported this unique combination of symptoms a century before Cotard's influential description of the nihilistic delusions and of Pick's description of 'reduplicative paramnesia'.
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Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Mannheim, Germany.
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D000368:Aged; D000647:Amnesia / Q000266:history*; D001293:Attitude to Death; D003702:Delusions / Q000266:history*; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D016489:Head Injuries, Closed / Q000266:history*; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000266:history*