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I have removed the "hoax" tag from this article, because it correctly reports what Koestler says in The Act of Creation and seems to me interesting enough to be notable. However searches in Google and Google Scholar leave me with the impression that, medically, the term is used for a different condition. Without a subscription, one cannot get far enough into the papers turned up by a Scholar search to be sure, but (for instance) Djordjevic's French-English Dictionary of Medicine defines Foerster's syndrome as generalised amyotonia and Förster's syndrome as atonic-astatic diplegia - disorders of muscle tone and posture control rather than verbal behaviour. I think Koestler may have adopted for the compulsive punning described by Foerster in 1929 a term already in use for a different condition, and the few references one finds for the "compulsive punning" meaning may all be derived from Koestler's book. I have therefore put an {{expert-subject}} tag on in the hope that someone can improve the article with references to the other, and maybe principal, meaning of the term. JohnCD (talk) 20:56, 15 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
