The Depersonalization Syndrome

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Key points	The text distinguishes depersonalization as a symptom occurring within conditions such as hysteria, anxiety and obsessional states, some schizophrenia, and endogenous depression, from a separate derealization-depersonalization syndrome in which unreality is the primary disturbance. It contends that this syndrome is distinctive, has received scant attention in psychiatric textbooks, and appears to be becoming increasingly common in practice.

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The text distinguishes depersonalization as a symptom occurring within conditions such as hysteria, anxiety and obsessional states, some schizophrenia, and endogenous depression, from a separate derealization-depersonalization syndrome in which unreality is the primary disturbance. It contends that this syndrome is distinctive, has received scant attention in psychiatric textbooks, and appears to be becoming increasingly common in practice.

Abstract

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 has received scant attention in most psychiatric textbooks and which appears to be becoming increasingly common in practice.

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