Delusional Double Mourning: A Complication of Bereavement in Dementia Journal Articles

abstract

• We describe two elderly patients with senile dementia who presented with the delusion that a parent had died within weeks of the actual death of a spouse. These fixed, systematized, and persistent beliefs do not correspond to the delusions of dementia or of the bereaved elderly that have been previously described. The phenomenology and implications of these “delusions of double mourning” are discussed.

authors

• Herrmann, Nathan
• Grek, Adrian

status

• published 

publication date

• December 1988

has subject area

• 11 Medical and Health Sciences (FoR)
• 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences (FoR)
• Aged (MeSH)
• Aged, 80 and over (MeSH)
• Delusions (MeSH)
• Dementia (MeSH)
• Female (MeSH)
• Grief (MeSH)
• Humans (MeSH)
• Male (MeSH)
• Neuropsychological Tests (MeSH)
• Psychiatry (Science Metrix)
• Single Person (MeSH)

published in

• Canadian Journal of Psychiatry  Journal

keywords

• Aged
• Aged, 80 and over
• Delusions
• Dementia
• Female
• Grief
• Humans
• Male
• Neuropsychological Tests
• Single Person

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/070674378803300913

PubMed ID

• 3214832

start page

• 851

end page

• 852

volume

• 33

issue

• 9