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Déjà Vu Experiences and Reduplicative Paramnesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Herman N. Sno*
Affiliation:
Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic, Academic Medical Centre, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Frans De Jonghe
Affiliation:
University Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
*
Correspondence

Abstract

A schizophrenic patient with different forms of experiences of inappropriate familiarity is described. The authors discuss traumatic experiences as aetiological factors in déjà vu experiences and reduplicative paramnesia. Finally, the differential diagnostic problem in psychotic and dissociative phenomena is stressed.

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Brief Reports
Copyright
Copyright © 1992 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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