ABSTRACT
The term “reduplicative paramnesia” (RP) was introduced by Arnold Pick in 1903 to describe a clinical condition in which a patient states that there are two (or more) places with almost identical attributes, although only one exists in reality. Pick described this disorder in a patient with a degenerative disease of the brain, interpreting it as the result of a mild memory disorder. Using his own words, it “is characterised in that a continuous series of events in the patient’s remembrance subsequently fall into manifold occurrences; the isolated events, though they remain pretty clearly in his memory, are impressed on him as repetitions thereof” (p. 263).
