The Kandinsky–Clérambault syndrome or syndrome of the psychic automatism is a psychopathological
syndrome
A syndrome is a set of medical signs and symptoms which are correlated with each other and often associated with a particular disease or disorder. The word derives from the Greek σύνδρομον, meaning "concurrence". When a syndrome is paired ...
, considered to be a typical feature of
paranoid schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by continuous or relapsing episodes of psychosis. Major symptoms include hallucinations (typically Auditory hallucination#Schizophrenia, hearing voices), delusions, and disorganized thinking. ...
and is characterized by
pseudohallucination
A pseudohallucination (from grc, ψευδής (pseudḗs) "false, lying" + "hallucination") is an involuntary sensory experience vivid enough to be regarded as a hallucination, but which is recognised by the person experiencing it as being subject ...
s, delusions of control,
telepathy
Telepathy () is the purported vicarious transmission of information from one person's mind to another's without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction. The term was first coined in 1882 by the classical scholar Frederic W ...
,
thought broadcasting
In psychiatry, thought broadcasting is the belief that others can hear or are aware of an individual's thoughts. The person experiencing this symptom can also think that their thoughts are being broadcast through different media, such as the telev ...
and
thought insertion
Thought insertion is defined by the ICD-10 as the delusion that one's thoughts are not one's own, but rather belong to someone else and have been inserted into one's mind. The person experiencing the thought insertion delusion will not necessarily ...
by an external force.
The syndrome also characterized by delusion of being controlled by a source outside himself.
History
The syndrome of Kandinsky–Clérambault is named after
Victor Kandinsky
Victor Khrisanfovich Kandinsky (russian: Виктор Хрисанфович Кандинский) (6 April 1849, Byankino, Nerchinsky District, Siberia – 3 July 1889, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian psychiatrist, and was 2nd cousin to famed arti ...
and
Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault
Gaëtan Henri Alfred Edouard Léon Marie Gatian de Clérambault (2 July 1872 – 17 November 1934) was a French psychiatrist.
Career
De Clérambault gained his thesis in 1899, later becoming an assistant physician at the special infirmary ...
.
Victor Kandinsky (1849–1889), a Russian psychiatrist, was the first to describe the syndrome of psychic automatism by his own subjective personal experiences during his psychotic episode. The syndrome of psychic automatism is described in a Kandinsky's monograph in Russian "On Pseudohallucinations" (russian: О псевдогаллюцинациях, link=no) published posthumously in 1890 by his wife Elizaveta Freimut. The syndrome is also identified by Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault (1872–1934), a French psychiatrist who credited with introducing the term "psychic automatism".
The Kandinsky-Clérambault syndrome is not well known and it is used mainly by Russian, French and German psychiatrists.
References
External links
Kandinsky-Clérambault Syndrome: Narration and PsychosisThe Misidentification of Clérambault's and Kandinsky–Clérambault's Syndromes
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Psychopathological syndromes
Schizophrenia