Heautoscopy, epilepsy, and suicide.
Open Access
- 1 July 1994
- journal article
- case report
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
- Vol. 57 (7) , 838-839
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.57.7.838
Abstract
Heautoscopy (the doppelgänger experience), epilepsy, and suicide is a triad primarily known from literary accounts. This paper reports a patient with complex partial seizures who tried to commit suicide during the experience of heautoscopy.Keywords
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