Capgras' syndrome

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Capgras' syndrome

[käpgrä′]

Etymology: Jean Marie Joseph Capgras, French psychiatrist, 1873-1950

a form of delusional misidentification in which the patient believes that other persons in the environment are not their real selves but doubles.

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