Depersonalization, or feeling of unreality, is a symptom which may occur as part of several psychiatric conditions, such as hysteria, anxiety and obsessional states, and some forms of schizophrenia and endogenous depression. The true derealization-depersonalization syndrome, however, in which the unreality symptom is the primary disturbance, is a quite peculiar and distinctive condition, which...
The experimental reproduction of psychotic phenomena in the normal person is a subject which has attracted much attention in recent years from psychiatrists, and which has added remarkable and interesting facts to our clinical knowledge.