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  • Chapter 1 - Introduction

  • Femi Oyebode, University of Birmingham
  • Book:
    Doppelgänger
    Published online:
    13 March 2025
    Print publication:
    20 March 2025, pp 1-17

  • Summary

    Doppelgänger is a term drawn from the writing of Jean Paul Richter in his novel Siebenkäs. This term is examined and discussed in this chapter. It stands for the possibility of the existence of a double of a living person and therefore raises questions about the nature of the self and of mind too. The concepts of self and mind are explored and the implications for philosophy of mind are examined. The importance of attending to the empirical literature rather than using thought experiments is emphasized.

  • Chapter 7 - The Double in Clinical Psychopathology

  • Femi Oyebode, University of Birmingham
  • Book:
    Doppelgänger
    Published online:
    13 March 2025
    Print publication:
    20 March 2025, pp 127-141

  • Summary

    In this chapter, I turn to how the abnormal experience of the double is manifest in the clinic. I give detailed descriptions of autoscopy and related conditions, namely autoscopic hallucination, heautoscopy, sense of presence, and negative autoscopy. Furthermore, I discuss dissociative identity disorder, and delusional misidentification syndromes. In all these abnormal phenomena, I draw on the classical case descriptions to illustrate how these conditions are experienced.