- Dedication
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Isolated Sleep Paralysis
- 3 Sexual Behaviors in Sleep
- 4 Exploding Head Syndrome
- 5 Capgras and Other Misidentification Syndromes
- 6 Attention Deficit Disorder Psychosis
- 7 Cotard’s Syndrome
- 8 Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder
- 9 Necrophilia
- 10 Frotteurism
- 11 Autoerotic Asphyxia and Asphyxiophilia
- 12 Koro—A Genital Retraction Syndrome
- 13 Taijin Kyofusho
- 14 Brain Fag Syndrome
- 15 Jerusalem Syndrome and Paris Syndrome
- 16 Dhat Syndrome
- 17 Ataques de Nervios
- 18 Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
- 19 Factitious Disorders
- 20 Diogenes Syndrome
- 21 <i>Pseudologia Fantastica</i>—Pathological Lying
- 22 Body Integrity Identity Disorder
- Index
(p. 94) Cotard’s Syndrome
- Chapter:
- (p. 94) Cotard’s Syndrome
- Author(s):
Hans Debruyne
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med:psych/9780190245863.003.0007
Cotard’s syndrome involves nihilistic delusions about the patient’s own body, such as believing that he or she is a walking corpse. The syndrome is named for Jules Cotard (1840–1889), a French neurologist who first described this condition in 1880. He formulated the syndrome as a new type of depression characterized by symptoms such as anxious melancholia, ideas of damnation or rejection, insensitivity to pain, delusions of nonexistence concerning one’s own body, and delusions of immortality. Along with discussing the typical progression of symptoms and associated features, this chapter situates Cotard’s syndrome within the context of several other disorders and well-known neuropsychological deficits.
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- Dedication
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Isolated Sleep Paralysis
- 3 Sexual Behaviors in Sleep
- 4 Exploding Head Syndrome
- 5 Capgras and Other Misidentification Syndromes
- 6 Attention Deficit Disorder Psychosis
- 7 Cotard’s Syndrome
- 8 Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder
- 9 Necrophilia
- 10 Frotteurism
- 11 Autoerotic Asphyxia and Asphyxiophilia
- 12 Koro—A Genital Retraction Syndrome
- 13 Taijin Kyofusho
- 14 Brain Fag Syndrome
- 15 Jerusalem Syndrome and Paris Syndrome
- 16 Dhat Syndrome
- 17 Ataques de Nervios
- 18 Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
- 19 Factitious Disorders
- 20 Diogenes Syndrome
- 21 <i>Pseudologia Fantastica</i>—Pathological Lying
- 22 Body Integrity Identity Disorder
- Index