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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 124, No. 8

Articles | February 01, 1968

Delirium: An Experience and Some Reflections

MAX LEVIN

Am J Psychiatry 1968;124:1120-1123.

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Clinical professor of neurology, the New York Medical College, Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals, New York, N. Y. 10029

1967-68, American Psychiatric Association

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The author describes his personal experience with acute delirium accompanying pneumococcal meningitis. He discusses several aspects of delirious thinking such as occupational delirium, geographical disorientation, and duplication and double orientation.

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