Effect of Cultural Themes on Forming Cotard’s Syndrome: Reporting a Case of Cotard’s Syndrome with Depersonalization and Out of Body Experience Symptoms

Alireza Ghaffari Nejad; Ali Mehdizadeh Zare Anari; Fatemeh Pouya

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Effect of Cultural Themes on Forming Cotard’s Syndrome: Reporting a Case of Cotard’s Syndrome with Depersonalization and Out of Body Experience Symptoms

Author(s):

Alireza Ghaffari Nejad¹,

Ali Mehdizadeh Zare Anari^2,*,

Fatemeh Pouya³

1Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Beheshti Hospital, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

2Psychiatrist, Kerman Neuroscience Research Center, Student Counseling Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran. Address: Student Counseling Center, Paradises of Medical University, Haft Bagh Avenue, Kerman, Iran

3Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

IJ Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences:Vol. 7, issue 2; 91-3

Published online:Dec 30, 2013

Article type:Case Report

Received:Nov 01, 2012

Accepted:May 28, 2012

How to Cite:Alireza Ghaffari NejadAli Mehdizadeh Zare AnariFatemeh PouyaEffect of Cultural Themes on Forming Cotard’s Syndrome: Reporting a Case of Cotard’s Syndrome with Depersonalization and Out of Body Experience Symptoms.Iran J Psychiatry Behav Sci.7(2):91-3.

Abstract

Objective: Cotard’s syndrome is a rare psychiatric syndrome. Its core symptom is nihilistic ideation or delusion.

Case Report: A female patient with Cotard’s syndrome symptoms associated with out of body experience and depersonalization, and complicated grief was referred for evaluation. She believed that she was killed by a creature named "Aal" in the Persian folklore

Conclusions: Cultural and superstitious beliefs could affect the forming of the complex constellation of the patient’s symptoms including Cotard’s syndrome symptoms. The resolution of symptoms might be achieved step by step.

Declaration of interest: None.

Citation: Ghaffari Nejad A, Mehdizadeh Zare Anari A, Pouya F. Effect of cultural themes on forming Cotard’s syndrome: reporting a case of Cotard’s syndrome with depersonalization and out of body experience symptoms. Iran J Psychiatry Behav Sci 2013; 7(2): 91-3.

Keywords

Cotard’s Syndrome

Cultural Themes

Depersonalization

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