Autoscopy, Mental Handicap and Epilepsy

1 December 1988

journal article
case report
Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry

Vol. 153 (6) , 825-827
https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.153.6.825

Abstract

A case of autoscopy in a 43-year-old epileptic and mentally handicapped woman is described. The possible significance of this phenomenon to the patient is discussed.

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