Volume : VIII, Issue : I, January - 2018

COTARD‘S SYNDROME: A REVIEW ARTICLE

Dr. V. Hemavathy, Estaphania W Chyne

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Cotard’s Syndrome was first described by Jules Cotard, a French neurologist who called it as “le délire de negation” (“negation delirium”), in a lecture in Paris in 1880 . He reported the case of a 43 year old lady who believed that she had “no ain, nerves, chest or entrails and was just skin and bone”, that “neither God nor the devil existed” and that “she was eternal and would live forever”. The syndrome is described to have various degrees of severity, ranging from mild to severe. In a mild state, feelings of despair and self–loathing occur, whereas in the severe state the person with Cotard’s syndrome actually starts to deny the very existence of self . The present case is of a lady with recurrent depressive disorder, in which the sufferer had nihilistic delusions typical of Cotard syndrome.

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Dr.V.HEMAVATHY, ESTAPHANIA W CHYNE, COTARD'S SYNDROME: A REVIEW ARTICLE, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-1 | January-2018

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