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 schizophrenia[2] and epilepsy.

Heautoscopy probably forms the basis for doppelgänger phenomenae.


[edit] See also

Autoscopy

[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". Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 174: 615–619. doi:10.1097/00005053-198610000-00006.