psychopathology: reduplicative paramnesia

In this delusional misidentification phenomenon the individual believes in or experiences simultaneous duplication of a place, a person, or even one's self or that he is a replacement of his original self. The term was probably coined by Arnold Pick.

• The Double Life of Veronique Irčne Jacob, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Halina Gryglaszewska, and Kalina Jedrusik 1991
• Synecdoche New York Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams 2008

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