Quotes About Cotard's

in some half-forgotten pesthole of twentieth-century case studies—filed under Cotard's syndrome—I found Amanda Bates and others of her kind, their brains torqued into denial of the very self.

rare psychiatric malady that actually defines the idea—Cotard's delusion, the belief that one is already dead, or doesn't exist, or is putrefying, or has lost one's blood and inner organs.