Towards an Understanding of Delusions of Misidentification: Four Case Studies

By Nora Breen, D. Caine, Max Coltheart, J. Hendy, C. Roberts. 2000

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Phenomenal transparency and cognitive self-reference (2003, background): “Breen, Caine, Coltheart, Hendy and Roberts 2000, p. 75, n. 1). 17. Young and Leafhead (1996, p. 154) argue that there is no specific symptom shown by every one of Cotard’s pure cases, whereas Berrios and Luque (1995) offer a statistical”
In Defence of the Doxastic Conception of Delusions (2005, background): “Breen et al. (2000) describe the case of patient DB, who suffered from reduplicative paramnesia after a right parietal stroke. DB both affirmed (correctly) that her husband had died and been cremated four years before and also (incorrectly) that he was a patient on the ward in the same hospital that”
Monothematic Delusions: Towards a Two-Factor Account (2001, background): “See Breen et al. (2000b, 93) for DB’s delusional belief and her apparent recollection that her husband “was talking to some of the men that he had a stroke and he could feel it coming on.””
The 33rd Sir Frederick Bartlett Lecture Cognitive neuropsychiatry and delusional belief (2007, background): “Consider case T.H. (Breen, Caine, & Coltheart, 2001; Breen et al., 2000), a patient in the very early stages of dementia, who exhibited the delusion of mirrored-self misidentification: Whenever he looked into a mirror, he said that the person he saw there was not him, but some stranger who looked…”