Capgras' syndrome

Capgras' syndrome
the delusion that a person closely involved with the patient has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor. It is often, but not necessarily, a form of paranoid schizophrenia.
J. M. J. Capgras (1873-1950), French psychiatrist

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