Talk:Fregoli delusion

The relevance of Agents in The Matrix to this disorder

• Should that Matrix reference really be here? It's hardly an actual depiction. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.225.199.51 (talk) 01:46, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

• No, it shouldn't. In that story, the Agents change the appearance of the person whose "body" they take over. No one who knew the person whose body the Agent took over would believe that the Agent was identical to that person. Not only is it not an actual depiction, but it's not even meant to be qualitatively similar. I deleted that reference. Dan (talk) 21:05, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Two different descriptions?

The opening paragraph states "The Fregoli delusion or the delusion of doubles is a rare disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that different people are in fact a single person who changes appearance or is in disguise." Later on, in the paragraph about symptoms, it says: "Fregoli syndrome is the belief that familiar people (i.e. family members, friends, etc.) have been malevolently disguised to appear as strangers." Yes the first paragraph talks about "delusion" while the later about a "syndrome", but throughout the article, both words seem to be used interchangeably. Maybe this is some kind of "meta-joke", but of course that's not encyclopaedic, so this should better be cleaned up. I don't know which of the descriptions is the correct one, although I assume the first, as this version is explained further in the articles, while the latter statement just seems to stand there on its own... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.245.89.192 (talk) 21:11, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Treatment

Levidopa Treatment is listed under treatments for Fregoli, but a closer examination of the actual text suggests that it is a cause, and not a cure, of Fregoli Delusions. The text certainly belongs in the article, but does it really belong under Treatment? - 214.13.35.169 (talk) 15:43, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Desctiptions of disorder

I think this page is great- but the description of the disorder is a bit confusing and unclear. Can anyone simplify it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jlucas1 (talk • contribs) 23:05, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Directly Disputing Paragraphs

Did anybody else notice that the "Delusional misidentification syndromes and Fregoli" and "Delusional misidentification syndromes and Fregoli" paragraphs have statements that directly dispute each other? The former says, "The most common syndromes are Capgras and Fregoli" in the middle of the paragraph; the latter says, " Of the four, Fregoli syndrome is the least frequent, followed by Capgras" in the second line. Overall, I think this article needs improvement, considering that the first few lines contain statements where citation is still required. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ohgeemarie (talk • contribs) 05:10, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

I just noticed the same error from 6 years ago still in the article. IAmNitpicking (talk) 02:46, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

logical dilemma

• www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25219764

2014 The Fregoli delusion: a disorder of person identification and tracking.

"Fregoli delusion is the mistaken belief that some person currently present in the deluded person's environment (typically a stranger) is a familiar person in disguise. The stranger is believed to be psychologically identical to this known person (who is not present) even though the deluded person perceives the physical appearance of the stranger as being different from the known person's typical appearance. To gain a deeper understanding of this contradictory error in the normal system for tracking and identifying known persons, we conducted a detailed survey of all the Fregoli cases reported in the literature since the seminal Courbon and Fail (1927) paper. Our preliminary reading of these cases revealed a notable lack of definitional clarity...."

How does a person with Fregoli delusion deal with two or more of the supposedly "same" other being present at the same time?-71.174.188.32 (talk) 20:46, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

some others vs. all others

It seems like a typical Fregoli delusion involves mis-identifying just a few others as being the same person. Is there a version where all others are identified as the same person? Or some variations where one set of others are perceived as person X and another set as person Y etc? Please clarify these aspects in the article, if you can find sources with relevant info.-71.174.188.32 (talk) 20:48, 22 December 2015 (UTC)