COTARD'S SYNDROME

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N., Pam M.S.
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proposed by French neurologist Jules Cotard, a psychotic state marked by serious depression and extreme nuhilistic illusions wherein people persist that their bodies and its parts, as well as their entire concept of reality on some occasions, have dissolved or never were at all.

COTARD'S SYNDROME: "Brad was diagnosed with Cotard's Syndrome."

Related Psychology Terms

  1. CROUZON'S SYNDROME
  2. BALLET'S DISEASE
  3. PARANOID PSYCHOSIS
  4. FOLIE A TROIS
  5. FOLIE A DEUX
  6. GERSTMANN'S SYNDROME
  7. ANIMAL SPIRITS
  8. ACUTE PSYCHOTIC EPISODE
  9. ALCOHOL-INDUCED PSYCHOTIC DISORDER
  10. SCHIZOPHRENIA
Cite this page: N., Pam M.S., "COTARD'S SYNDROME," in PsychologyDictionary.org, April 7, 2013, https://psychologydictionary.org/cotards-syndrome/ (accessed August 4, 2020).
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