Medicine:Kandinsky–Clérambault syndrome
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| Other names | Syndrome of the psychic automatism |
The Kandinsky–Clérambault syndrome or syndrome of the psychic automatism is a psychopathological syndrome, considered to be a typical feature of paranoid schizophrenia and is characterized by pseudohallucinations, delusions of control, telepathy, thought broadcasting and thought insertion by an external force.[1] The syndrome also characterized by delusion of being controlled by a source outside himself.[2] The Kandinsky-Clérambault syndrome is not well known and it is used mainly by Russian, French and German psychiatrists.[3]
History
The syndrome of Kandinsky–Clérambault is named after Victor Kandinsky and Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault. Victor Kandinsky (1849–1889), a Russian psychiatrist, was the first to describe the syndrome of psychic automatism by his own subjective personal experiences during his psychotic episode. The syndrome of psychic automatism is described in a Kandinsky's monograph in Russian "On Pseudohallucinations" (Russian: О псевдогаллюцинациях) published posthumously in 1890 by his wife Elizaveta Freimut. The syndrome is also identified by Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault (1872–1934), a French psychiatrist who credited with introducing the term "psychic automatism".[3]
Literature
Ian McEwan's novel Enduring Love has a victim of the syndrome, a jed Parry, as one of the protagonists. Parry targets and almost destroys the married life of the science journalist he falls in love with. [4] [5]
References
- ↑ Lavretsky, H. (1998). "The Russian Concept of Schizophrenia: A Review of the Literature". Schizophrenia Bulletin 24 (4): 537–557. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.schbul.a033348. ISSN 0586-7614. PMID 9853788.
- ↑ Richard Noll (2009). The Encyclopedia of Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders. Infobase Publishing. pp. 98. ISBN 978-0-8160-7508-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=jzoJxps189IC&pg=PA98.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Vladimir Lerner, Alexander Kaptsan & Eliezer Witztum (2003). "Kandinsky-Clérambault's Syndrome: concept of use for Western psychiatry". Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences 40 (1): 40–46. PMID 12817668.
- ↑ Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, Vintage Books 1997. The fictional appendix attributed to Drs Robert Wenn and Antonio Camia in on pages pp.233-243.
- ↑ ['Doctors Wenn and Camia, I Presume? Inside Ian McEwan’s papers,'] Ransom Center magazine University of Texas at Austin 15 October 2015
External links
- Kandinsky-Clérambault Syndrome: Narration and Psychosis
- The Misidentification of Clérambault's and Kandinsky–Clérambault's Syndromes
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