Talk:Giovannini Mirror Syndrome

Real disease?

The article by The British Psycological Society indicates that an actual case has been reported.

• "Psychologists in Italy have reported the real-life case of AD, a 65-year-old whose identity is shaped by his environment - a behavioural style that began after cardiac arrest caused damage to the frontal and temporal lobes of his brain. When with doctors, AD assumes the role of a doctor; when with psychologists he says he is a psychologist; at the solicitors he claims to be a solicitor. AD doesn't just make these claims, he actually plays the roles and provides believable accounts for how he came to be in these roles.To investigate further, Giovannina Conchiglia and colleagues used actors to contrive different scenarios. At a bar, an actor asked AD for a cocktail, prompting him to immediately fulfil the role of bar-tender, claiming that he was on a two-week trial hoping to gain a permanent position. Taken to the hospital kitchen, AD quickly assumed the role of head cook, and said he had to concoct special meals for diabetic patients. He maintains these roles until the situation changes. However, he didn't take on the part of a laundry worker at the hospital laundry, perhaps because it was too far out of keeping with his real-life career as a politician."

That would be called Environmental_dependency_syndrome of which we have an article on. Dusti^{*Let's talk!*} 02:33, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

@Dusti: This article is not a proven medical syndrome as it has been reported only once in medical journal. Also, single report in a journal does not merit an entry in encyclopedia. (See WP:NOTCATALOG.) Additionally, title is unoriginal (published paper mentions it as Zelig-like syndrome). I am nominating this page for deletion for these reasons. ★Saurabh P.  |  ☎ talk 02:46, 19 August 2014 (UTC)