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291 Chapter 11: Delusions and abnormal thought content31 Hirstein and Ramchandran (1997).32 Courbon and Fail (1927).33 de Pauw et al. (1987).34 Christodoulou (1976).35 Edelstyn and Oyebode (1999).36 Christodoulou (1991).37 Pearn and Gardner-Thorpe (2002).38 Fink and Taylor ( 2003), chapter 2.39 Young et al. (1994).40 Berrios and Luque (1995).41 Gardner-Thorpe and Pearn (2004).42 Shorter (2005), page 99.43 Hammond (1883/1973), page 328.44 During most of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, no classification identifieddementia praecox. Hebephrenia was the psychosis of youth. Monomania was alwaysseparated from hebephrenia.45 Hammond (1883/1973), page 328.46 el Gaddal (1989); Anderson et al. (1998); Kelly (2005).47 Wijeratne et al. (1997); Kelly (2005).48 Soyka et al. (1991).49 Despite little supporting evidence, for the diagnosis of delusional disorder, the DSM-IVrequires that the content of the hallucination be similar to the content of the delusion.Thus, if a person who believes she is being poisoned also has hallucinations, they should beconsistent with poison, e.g. smelling the odor of the poison or hear voices discussing thepoisoning.50 Shorter (2005), pages 206–11.51 Fish (1962), pages 69–76; Holden (1987).52 Holden (1987).53 Howard et al. (1994).54 Quraishi and Frangou (2002).55 Bleuler (1976), page 65.56 Fischer et al. (1995); Joseph (1999).57 Gundogar and Demicrci (2006).58 Kopelman (1996).59 Also see Fink and Taylor (2003).60 Lasegue and Falret (1877).61 Hammond (1883/1973), page 515. One of us (MAT) has on three occasions had twomembers of the same nuclear family admitted to a psychiatric inpatient unit within daysof each other. In one instance, a mother and daughter with different last names had notspoken to each other for several years.62 Silveira and Seeman (1995); Kashiwase and Kato (1997); Patel et al. (2004).63 Reif and Pfuhlmann (2004).64 Christodoulou et al. (1995).