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Year : 2014 | Volume
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Delusion of twin delivery in a post-menopausal woman: Another dimension of delusional procreation syndrome
Ajeet Sidana, Rajan Jain
Department of Psychiatry, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Ajeet Sidana Department of Psychiatry, 5th Level, D Block, Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, Chandigarh India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/0971-8990.143891
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Delusional procreation syndrome (DPS) consists of sequential delusions in every possible stage of procreation such as having spouse/partner, getting pregnant, having delivered a child (labour and childbirth), and becoming parents/grand-parents and so on. Till now, only few case reports have been reported and that is from the southern part of India only. Here the authors reported a case of a post-menopausal woman having delusion of twin delivery and propose twin dimension of DPS. |
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