Heautoscopy

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Heautoscopy is a term used in psychiatry for the reduplicative hallucination of "seeing one's own body at a distance" 1. It can occur as a symptom in schizophrenia2 and epilepsy.

Heautoscopy probably forms the basis for doppelgänger phenomenae.

[edit] References

1. Damas Mora JMR, Jenner FA, Eacott SE (1980). "On heautoscopy or the phenomenon of the double: Case presentation and review of the literature". Br J Med Psychol 53: 75-83. 

2. Blackmore S (1986). "Out-of-Body Experiences in Schizophrenia: A Questionnaire Survey" 174: 615-619. 

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