Cotard’s Syndrome: Clinical Case Presentation and Literature Review

Carano, Alessandro and Berardis, Domenico De and Cavuto, Marilde and Ortolani, Carla and Perna, Giampaolo and Valchera, Alessandro and Mazza, Monica and Fornaro, Michele and Iasevoli, Felice and Martinotti, Giovanni and Giannantonio, Massimo Di (2014) Cotard’s Syndrome: Clinical Case Presentation and Literature Review. International Neuropsychiatric Disease Journal, 2 (6). pp. 348-355. ISSN 23217235

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Abstract

In 1880 French neurologist Jules Cotard described a condition characterized by delusion of negation (nihilistic delusion) in a melancholia context. Recently, there has been a resurgence of interest in Cotard’s syndrome. The most prominent symptoms of Cotard’s Syndrome are depressive mood, nihilistic delusions concerning one’s own body and one’s own existence, delusions of guilt, immortality and hypochondria. The aim of the present paper is to review literature evidences concerning Cotard’s syndrome and to describe a clinical case keeping in the background the recent trends on its psychopathological implications. In the clinical study, the following sequence of stages emerged: the dissociative side, expressed as a loss of body-mind cohesion; the ‘mixed’ mood disorder, with depressive-manic episodes, and a persecutory background, all coexisting in the anguish of the idea of a body falling apart, the anguish of a descent towards the abyss of melancholia and/or an ascent to unlimited euphoria, characteristic of an “uncommon alarm” for loss of Self cohesion.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: ScienceOpen Library > Medical Science
Depositing User: Managing Editor
Date Deposited: 09 Jul 2023 03:36
Last Modified: 26 Jul 2024 06:48
URI: http://scholar.researcherseuropeans.com/id/eprint/1522

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