Prevalence of delusional misidentification syndromes.
The prevalence of delusional misidentification syndromes (DMS) in a consecutive sample of 195 inpatient admissions with functional psychosis was found to be 4.1%. It is argued that DMS symptoms are more common than previously supposed.
Institute of Psychiatry, Westminster Medical School, London, UK.
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