The main objective of this study was to analyze the hypothesis that patients with persecutory delusions would show a depressive-type self-concept when assessed with implicit measures of self-schema (i.e., a free recall test of self-relevant adjectives) but would show a normal self-concept when assessed with explicit measures (i.e., a self-concept questionnaire and a task requiring endorsement o...

Epidemiology and the study of subtypes of delusional disorders is a poorly researched area. This study tries to fill this lacuna and provides the evidence contrary to the accepted fact that the persecutory type is the most common subtype of persistent delusional disorder (paranoia). Out of 4234 patients who attended psychiatry outpatient department during the year 1994-1997, 45 patients receive...

Introduction Reduplicative paramnesia (RP) is a very rare content-specific delusional misidentification syndrome (DMS). RP entails the delusion that place, an object, or event has been duplicated exists in two different places at same time. thought to result from organic rather than psychiatric cause distinguishing it other DMS. It suggested damage right frontal and temporal lobe plays crucial ...