One of the most curious mental disorders that exist is called reduplicative paramnesia. Who suffers it, has the delusional idea that a certain place or environment has been duplicated, with which both places, the original and the reduplicated, exist at the same time or, that the place has been placed in another place. Normally, the places that the subject believes to have been duplicated are familiar to him, such as his home, his place of work, the hospital or a center he visits on a regular basis. It is rarer to have reduplicative paramnesia with a location that is exotic and unfamiliar.
This syndrome was first identified in 1903, when Czechoslovakian neurologist Arnold Pick he was treating in his clinic a patient suspected of having the disease of Alzheimer's. The patient claimed that they had moved him from Pick's original clinic to one exactly the same one that was located elsewhere in the city.
This disorder is usually associated with brain injuries in which both the right cerebral hemisphere and both frontal lobes are damaged. Derived from this injury, the patient suffers a
This brain damage can be due to strokes, brain tumors, encephalopathies, dementias and also appears in different psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia.
Currently there is no specific treatment for this ailment, but is usually aimed at treating the cause that gave rise to it and also provide the patient with antidepressants to counteract mood disturbances that may be caused by disease.
This article is merely informative, in Psychology-Online we do not have the power to make a diagnosis or recommend a treatment. We invite you to go to a psychologist to treat your particular case.
