Understanding the psychology behind why people mistake their close ones for imposters
In 1991, psychiatrists K. M. Passer and J. K. Warnock diagnosed a certain Mrs. D, a 74-year-old married housewife who threw fits that her husband has been replaced by another man.
She “refused to sleep with the impostor, locked her bedroom and door at night, asked her son for a gun, and finally fought with the police when attempts were made to hospitalize her”.