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The Depersonalization Syndrome: Report of a Case

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Sidney Bockner
Sidney Bockner*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, Guy's Hospital; York Clinic, Guy's Hospital; Maida Vale Hospital for Nervous Diseases
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This paper presents an example of the depersonalization syndrome as experienced and described by an intelligent patient. Considering the frequency of its occurrence, this syndrome has not been as often recognized nor as adequately described as would be expected. The syndrome was first described by Mayer-Gross (1935), later by Gordon (1936), Shorvon (1946, 1947) and Tayleur Stockings (1947). The psychopathology of depersonalization was given in analytical terms by Oberndorf (1935, 1936) and Feigenbaum (1937); Galdston has recently discussed this aspect (1947). As a symptom of organic brain disease, depersonalization offers an interesting field in the long-disputed question of body-mind relationship. Reidl (1942) described this symptom in a case of carbon monoxide poisoning, and Brock and Weisel (1942) discussed its occurrence in organic cerebral disease. Guttman and Maclay (1936) described the interesting relationship between mescaline intoxication and depersonalization. Cerebral anatomical localization was discussed in an anatomico-clinical study by Dide (1938).

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 95 , Issue 401 , October 1949 , pp. 968 - 971
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1949 

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