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Delirium: An Experience and Some Reflections

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.8.1120

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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