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This paper presents four clinical cases of patients in Brazil who were initially misdiagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia but were actually suffering from delusional depression. The author argues that cultural factors like morality patterns can influence depressive symptoms and result in guilty or paranoid tendencies. When prominent, paranoid thoughts and hallucinations in depressive states can lead to misdiagnoses. A culturally informed phenomenological examination is needed to make accurate diagnoses rath

Author

Camilo Venturi

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EN