Effect of cultural themes on forming cotard's syndrome: Reporting a case of cotard's syndrome with depersonalization and out of body experience symptoms

Objective: cotard's syndrome is a rare psychiatric syndrome. its core symptom is nihilistic ideation or delusion.case report: a female patient with cotard's syndrome symptoms associated with out of body experience and depersonalization,and complicated grief was referred for evaluation. she believed that she was killed by a creature named aal in the persian folklore conclusions: cultural and superstitious beliefs could affect the forming of the complex constellation of the patient's symptoms including cotard's syndrome symptoms. the resolution of symptoms might be achieved step by step.