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When the body image becomes ‘empty’: Cotard’s delusion in a demented patient

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 June 2014

Giovannina Conchiglia ,
Gennaro Della Rocca  and
Dario Grossi
Giovannina Conchiglia*
Affiliation:
ALMA Mater Foundation spa Clinic:Villa Camaldoli - Naples, Italy
Gennaro Della Rocca
Affiliation:
ALMA Mater Foundation spa Clinic:Villa Camaldoli - Naples, Italy
Dario Grossi
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy C.I.R.N. Inter-University Center for Research in Neurosciences, Naples, Italy
*
ALMA Mater Foundation spa Clinic:Villa Camaldoli, 80131 Naples, Italy Tel: 338/9156202; Fax: 0815874010; E-mail: giopsico@libero.it
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Comment & Critique
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Acta Neuropsychiatrica , Volume 20 , Issue 5 , October 2008 , pp. 283 - 284
Copyright
Copyright © 2008 Blackwell Munksgaard

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