Delusional procreation syndrome: A psychopathology in procreation of human beings

Manjunatha, Narayana; Sarma, Pradip Kumar; Math, Suresh Bada; Chaturvedi, Santosh K.

doi:10.1016/j.ajp.2010.02.001

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“…Four of the articles could not be obtained,[ 13 14 15 16 ] and hence the present review included 40 articles. The included articles varied in the number of cases described from one case,[ 1 2 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 ] two cases,[ 42 43 ] three cases,[ 44 45 46 ] four cases,[ 47 ] five cases,[ 48 49 50 51 ] six cases[ 52 ] to a maximum of seven cases. [ 53 54 ]…”

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Delusion of Pregnancy: A Systematic Review of 84 Cases in the Literature

Bera¹,

Sarkar

2015

Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine

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Case reports of delusion of pregnancy have emanated from all over the world, yet the rarity of this phenomenology has precluded systematic large scale descriptive or cohort studies. This systematic review was conducted to assess the demographic characteristics, clinical profile, treatment outcome and aetiological factors from the published case reports of delusion of pregnancy. Electronic databases including PubMed, PsychInfo and Google Scholar were used to identify case reports relating to delusion of pregnancy published in peer-reviewed English language journals. All such cases were systematically evaluated by investigators, and information was extracted using a structured proforma. A total 40 articles were reviewed which included 84 cases. Demographic characteristics revealed that about half of the patients were aged 20-40 years. The most common diagnoses were schizophrenia (35.7%), bipolar disorders (16.7%) and depression (9.5%). Single foetus was reported by 79.8% of the patients, and 45.2% perceived foetal movements. Good treatment response was noted in 64.3 % of the cases. The prominent aetiological factors that were implicated included psychosocial factors, coenaesthopathological processes, socio-cultural factors and hyperprolactinaemia. Delusion of pregnancy is a heterogeneous symptom which emerges during the course of various neuropsychiatric disorders. A range of aetiopathological mechanisms have been implicated in the causation of this disorder.

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Delusion of Pregnancy: A Systematic Review of 84 Cases in the Literature

Bera¹,

Sarkar

2015

Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine

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“…The ‘Delusion of paternity’ in case 1 is the third report. After three cases,[17] ‘delusion of maternity’ in case 4 is the fourth report. Besides these, delusion of maternity was also present in cases 3 and 5 along with delusion of having spouse.…”

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Delusional Procreation Syndrome: Report from TURUVECARE Community Intervention Program

Manjunatha

Reddy

Devi

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Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine

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New insights on Delusional Procreation Syndrome (DPS), a sequence of delusions in the cycle of human procreation are emerging in recent times. Till date, most of the data on DPS are reported from the clinical samples. Authors report case series of having delusions related to DPS from a rural community sample of schizophrenia patients. Delusion of having spouse, delusion of delivery, and delusion of being a parent are reported in this case-series. This evidence is a forward step towards the validity of DPS as a syndrome.

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“…Manjunatha et al [1] in his study has introduced a new concept of psychopathology related to human procreation and referred to it as Delusional Procreational Syndrome (DPS). It includes delusion in every stage of procreation be it having a spouse, getting pregnant, delivery of the baby (labour and childbirth) and so on.…”

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“…It includes delusion in every stage of procreation be it having a spouse, getting pregnant, delivery of the baby (labour and childbirth) and so on. These are termed as 'selfreferential' delusions where patient himself is a part of the delusion complex [1][2][3]. Among these DPS one of the most commonly reported cases are that of delusion of pregnancy [4,8].…”

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Delusion of Pregnancy in a 60 Years Old Lady

Khasnobis¹,

Ghosh²,

Choudhury³

2019

AJPN

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BACKGROUND-The delusion of pregnancy is a condition where the person strongly believes that he/she is pregnant in spite of providing enough evidence to the contrary. Though previously it was considered rare, the number of such cases are gradually increasing in developing countries but the literature regarding this is very meagre in India particularly in the NorthEast. METHOD-In this article we report the unique case of a 60yrs old woman from rural Assam who developed delusion of pregnancy following her menopause thirteen years back, which has been continuing ever since. RESULT-A 60ys old woman presented in the OPD of Tertiary Care Hospital with feelings of movement of foetus in her womb. This was also associated with tremulousness of whole body, burning sensation of both lower limbs, palpitation, irritability and disturbed sleep for 13yrs with episodic exacerbation currently increased for 4-5months. She was a housewife, completed her family and lived with her husband and three children. She was apparently well 13yrs back when following her menopause at age 42yrs she started to doubt if she is pregnant or not. Multiple gynaecologists' opinion was taken but that did not convince her and she continued to believe she was pregnant and felt the movement of the baby inside her womb. CONCLUSION-Although these kinds of patient visit the obstetrician first but historically and clinically this type of delusion of pregnancy is clearly different from the phenomenon of pseudocyesis. Hence treatment approach of both are also different. We need further research to explore this rarely reported phenomenon.

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Delusional procreation syndrome: A psychopathology in procreation of human beings

Cited by 12 publications

References 18 publications

Delusion of Pregnancy: A Systematic Review of 84 Cases in the Literature

Delusion of Pregnancy: A Systematic Review of 84 Cases in the Literature

Delusional Procreation Syndrome: Report from TURUVECARE Community Intervention Program

Delusion of Pregnancy in a 60 Years Old Lady

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