We have presented a case of double personality with the death of the imaginary partner. The differential diagnosis and psychodynamics have been briefly discussed to emphasize the role of the hysterical mechanisms in the genesis of such a syndrome. Attention has also been called to the relation between such cases and Erikson's cases of “acute identity diffusion.”
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