title: Charles Bonnet's description of Cotard's delusion and reduplicative paramnesia in an elderly patient (1788)
abstract: 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'.
authors.affiliation: Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Mannheim, Germany.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Förstl
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Beats
mesh_terms: 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*