Case Reports in Psychiatry
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 351824, 3 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/351824
Case Report

Fregoli Syndrome: An Underrecognized Risk Factor for Aggression in Treatment Settings

Nauman Ashraf, Daniel Antonius, Arthur Sinkman, Karine Kleinhaus, and Dolores Malaspina

Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA

Received 9 June 2011; Accepted 28 June 2011

Academic Editors: Nick Bass and Hermann Spiessl

Copyright © 2011 Nauman Ashraf et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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