Katelyn Yunes, MS
WKPIC Doctoral Intern
Intermetamorphosis syndrome is a variant of Capgras’ delusion, where one believes that someone has transformed physically and psychologically into another person (Bick, 1984). Intermetamorphosis syndrome is often comorbid with psychiatric and neurological disorders, such as Schizophrenia and dementia (Cipriani et al., 2013; Forstl, Almeida, Owen, Burns, & Howard, 1991).
References
Bick, P. (1984). The syndrome of intermetamorphosis. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 141(4), 588–589. https://doi.org/10.1176/aip.141.4.588
Cipriani, G., Vedovello, M., Ulivi, M., Lucetti, C., Fiorino, A., & Nuti, A. (2013). Delusional misidentification syndromes and dementia: A border zone between neurology and psychiatry. American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias, 28(7), 671–678.
Forstl, H., Almeida, O., Owen, A., Burns, A., & Howard, R. (1991). Psychiatric, neurological and medical aspects of misidentification syndromes: A review of 260 cases. Psychological Medicine, 21(4), 905–910.