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Image - Capgras
delusion is identical-looking imposter
(Roses
for illustration)
Her
daughter said that she thought her husband who sit next her was
somebody else pretending her husband. He look like her husband but he
does not her husband. Every day and every night she looks for him and
for him desperately.
Her thought about her husband is a delusion. The man sit next was her husband. This delusion is called Capgras delusion or imposter delusion.
The
phenomena was described by Jean-Marie Joseph Cargas and his intern
Jean Reboul-Lachaux (1923) from the
case of 53 year-old woman who believed about the tragedies in her
life.
Her
first child was abducted and replaced by another baby, and tragically
died. The the twin girls were born, one grown and another was
abducted, the same case with the first baby, replaced with another
baby and died. Then, the twin boys were born, the same case happen
for both boy, abducted and finally died.
She
also believed that her husband also replaced by another person,
Then, she saw the police and all her neighbors were abducted and
replaced identical-looking imposter.
Those
just her delusion. Four of her children died when they were infant.
None abducted and imposter.
For
Alzheimer’s disease, the phenomenon of Capgras delusion sometimes
presumed as mis-identification or cognitive failure.
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