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(12,051 posts) Tue Dec 4, 2012, 02:12 PM Dec 2012

Question: What is the official psychiatric name for the disorder that makes a person think their [View all]

husband/wife/father/mother/kids aren't their REAL relatives, but exact duplicates who have replaced the real ones? I've googled without success. Thank you in advance!

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Question: What is the official psychiatric name for the disorder that makes a person think their [View all] Nay Dec 2012 OP

Capgras syndrome ?... PoliticAverse Dec 2012 #1

Thank you!! That's it! I was reading another DU thread about the 'bag lady' who shot and killed Nay Dec 2012 #2

The two people I have known/seen that said those things were both Care Acutely Dec 2012 #3

According to Wikipedia, the delusion can be induced by ketamine, so it made me start wondering Nay Dec 2012 #4

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