Clonal pluralization of self, relatives and others.
Delusional misidentification syndromes are a fascinating aspect of the psychopathology of psychotic patients. Recent psychiatric literature has mentioned a new variant of misidentification syndrome. Termed 'clonal pluralization', it differs from the typical misidentification syndromes. Essentially, the basic assumption of clonal pluralization is the belief that there are many physically and psychologically identical copies of a given original. This report presents a patient with schizophrenia who believed in triplicate copies of herself and others.
Ranjan
Sanjeev
S
Department of Psychiatry, Lyell McEwin Hospital, Elizabeth Vale, South Australia, Australia. esarsingh@yahoo.co.in
Chandra
Prabha S
PS
Gupta
Arun K
AK
Prabhu
Santosh
S
D000328:Adult; D002194:Capgras Syndrome / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology