The Double addresses the topic of duplicity of self. It presents psychopathological descriptions of the syndrome of subjective doubles and of schizophrenia at a time in which these conditions had not yet been described. This paper situates the book in the history of psychiatry, highlighting the pioneering spirit of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, his way of approaching this topic, and how he managed to address it in a clinical way.
False delirium identification syndrome; syndrome of subjective doubles; schizophrenia; literature and medicine