[A zoocentric Capgras syndrome].

Capgras syndrome is a delusional misidentification, a phenomenon where a person believes delusionally that another person (in most cases closely related) has been replaced by a double or impostor of identical appearance. It is usually a symptom of a functional psychosis but sometimes it is also associated with organic cerebral dysfunction. We present a case of a 23-year old women who had the delusional belief that her cat had been replaced by the cat of her former boy-friend. Reviewing the literature we found that such a case is very rare. The association between Capgras syndrome and depersonalisation-derealisation phenomena is also pointed out.