CHANGE OF NAME BY A PSYCHOTIC PATIENT: IS IT MANIFESTATION OF A PSYCHOPATHOLOGY MISSED UNTIL NOW?

Authors

  • Usama Bin Zubair Liasion Psychiatry Conolly Hospital, Dublin Ireland
  • Eugene G Breen Mater University Hospital Ireland,
  • Muhammad Shahbaz Shoaib Combined Military Hospital Malir/National University of Medical Sciences (NUMS) Pakistan,
  • Hamza Bin Zubair Holy Family Hospital, Rawalpindi Pakistan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51253/pafmj.v71i6.6973

Keywords:

Change of name, Psychopathology, Psychosis

Abstract

We present a case of a 24-year-old woman who changed her name 3 years after the diagnosis of schizophrenia. She had recurrent thoughts of changing her name for over a year and described her feelings as terrible as if captured in a dark room. She also had obsessional thoughts regarding God talking to her, body image and size. Low self-esteem was a constant feature. The psychopathology of her name changing seemed to be meshed between normal desire, obsessional fixation, overvalued ideas of its benefit, and psychotic thought processes.

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Published

01-01-2022

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Case Reports

How to Cite

1.
Zubair UB, Breen EG, Shoaib MS, Zubair HB. CHANGE OF NAME BY A PSYCHOTIC PATIENT: IS IT MANIFESTATION OF A PSYCHOPATHOLOGY MISSED UNTIL NOW?. Pak Armed Forces Med J [Internet]. 2022 Jan. 1 [cited 2024 Nov. 24];71(6):2259-61. Available from: https://pafmj.org/PAFMJ/article/view/6973