DELUSIONAL MISIDENTIFICATION IN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVE

The authors examined an autobiographical account of delusional misiden tification found in Daniel Schreber's Memoirs of My Mental Illness. It is argued that writers with a history of mental illness can provide u nique and accurate descriptions of complex psychiatric phenomena. Thes e descriptions can convey the subjective experience of psycho-patholog y and aid our understanding of the mechanisms giving rise to phenomena such as delusional misidentification.