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Ganser’s syndrome<br />

• 1 st described by Ganser in 1897<br />

• Frequently, attenti<strong>on</strong> is <strong>on</strong> classic symptom<br />

of ‘vorbeireden’ or approximate answers or<br />

answering past the point, which Scott (1965)<br />

described as Ganser’s symptom and which is<br />

comm<strong>on</strong>er than the syndrome itself<br />

• However, this has led to other features<br />

being overlooked, i.e. prominent<br />

hallucinatory experiences (?pseudo),<br />

hysterical stigmata and fluctuating<br />

disturbance in c<strong>on</strong>sciousness

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