The Capgras Syndrome? A Rarity

Abstract

The history is presented of a case of the Capgras Syndrome occurring in Paranoid Schizophrenia. It is suggested that the syndrome is rarely reported but may be more prevalent than has been previously thought.

Frontal Lobe Influences on Delusions: A Clinical Perspective

“…The Capgras syndrome has been reported with modest frequency, usually as an unusual psychiatric syndrome (Freedman et al 1975; Lehmann 1975; Enoch and Trethowan 1979; Rudnick 1982). Most individuals with the Capgras syndrome have been called schizophrenic, with the diagnosis at least partially based on the firmly held delusion of reduplication (Enoch 1963; Ball and Kidson 1968; Merrin and Silberfarb 1976; Quinn 1981). Other evidence such as positive family history, Schneiderian first-rank symptoms (Schneider 1930), and other schizophrenic phenomenology is absent in most reported cases.…”