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The confessions of a justified sinner and the psychopathology of the double

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Allan Beveridge
Allan Beveridge*
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West Fife District General Hospital, Whitefield Road, Dunfermline KY12 0SU
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In discussions of the psychopathology of the double, acknowledgement is usually given to the various literary accounts of the subject by Dostoevsky, De Maupassant and Stevenson (Christodoulou, 1986). Curiously, mention is never made of the work that has been described by Karl Miller (1985) as “the cardinal text” in the literature of the double. James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, published in 1824 and since recognised as a Scottish literary classic, represents the most detailed and complex exploration of the theme of the double.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 15 , Issue 6 , June 1991 , pp. 344 - 345
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