HALLUCINATION

false perception characterized by a distortion of real sensory stimuli. Common types of hallucination are auditory, i.e., hearing voices or noises and visual, i.e., seeing people that are not actually present. Hallucinations play a prominent role in schizophrenia and in the mania stage of bipolar disorder (see depression). They are also significant during withdrawal from various drugs, particularly depressants such as barbiturates, heroin, and alcohol (see delirium tremens), and under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD, mescaline, and psylocybin. Hallucinations may occur in normal people under conditions of sensory deprivation, emotional stress, religious exaltation, or great fatigue.

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The Fabric of Affect in the Psychoanalytic Discourse
Book by AndrÉ Green; Routledge, 1999
Subjects: Affect (Psychology), Psychoanalysis
...affect, language and discourse; negative hallucination. Written in a clear, lucid style...affect, language and discourse; negative hallucination 159...topography: affect and the ego (negative hallucination) 201...
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A Reference Companion to the History of Abnormal Psychology, A-L
Book by John G. Howells, M. Livia Osborn; Greenwood Press, 1984
Subjects: Psychology, Pathological--Early Works To 1900--Miscellanea, Psychology, Pathological--Miscellanea
...thought and the staring eyes suggest hallucination. Mezzotint by W. Dickson after...suicide q.v. . He is so haunted by hallucinations q.v. in which he sees the people...deeply depressed and suffered from hallucinations q.v. and obsessions q.v. . His...
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The Life of the Mind: Selected Papers
Book by Jason W. Brown; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1988
Subjects: Aphasia, Higher Nervous Activity, Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology
...affecting other components might lead to hallucination, while a more global expression of...representation appears normally in dream hallucination. The shift between dream and dreamless...threshold of awareness. The link between hallucination and memory imagery is experienced normally...
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Rimbaud's Poetic Practice: Image and Theme in the Major Poems
Book by W. M. Frohock; Harvard University Press, 1963
Subjects: Rimbaud, Arthur--1854-1891
...51 IV Hallucination and Epiphany 70...little drama. His personal interest in hallucination, and the uses he thought he could make...called "Le Bateau ivre." Chapter IV -- Hallucination and Epiphany BECAUSE RIMBAUD had...
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Dream, Creativity, and Madness in Nineteenth-Century France
Book by Tony James; Clarendon Press, 1995
Subjects: Creative Ability--France--History--19th Century, Dreams--France--History--19th Century, Hallucinations And Illusions--France--History--19th Century, Mental Illness--France--History--19th Century, Psychology And Literature--France--History--19th Century
...illness-France- History-19th century. 4. Hallucinations and illusions-France- History-19th...49 PART II: HALLUCINATION AND HALLUCINATORS 1830-1860...8 The word Hallucination in Fictionafter 1830 74...
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Brain Modules of Hallucination: an Analysis of Multiple Patients with Brain Lesions
Journal article by Claude M. J Braun, Mathieu Dumont, Julie Duval, Isabelle Hamel-Hebert, Lucie Godbout; Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience : JPN, Vol. 28, 2003
Subjects: Brain damage, Ears & hearing, Hallucinations & illusions, Research, Visual perception
Brain Modules of Hallucination: an Analysis of Multiple Patients...brain lesions that cause isolated hallucination in a single sensory modality...or somesthesia. Here we define hallucination widely as any false perception...
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"He Felt the Change So That It Hurt Him All Through": Sodomy and Transvestic Hallucination in Hemingway
Journal article by Carl Eby; The Hemingway Review, Vol. 25, 2005
Subjects: Fictitious characters--Psychological aspects, Hemingway, Ernest--Criticism and interpretation, Hemingway, Ernest--Works, Sodomy--Portrayals
...All Through": Sodomy and Transvestic Hallucination in Hemingway. by Carl Eby...protagonists experience a sort of bodily hallucination, for which sodomy functions as a catalyst...unusual and profound: a transvestic hallucination. Such an interpretation may initially...
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Understanding Media in 1805: Audiovisual Hallucination in the Lay of the Last Minstrel
Journal article by Celeste Langan; Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 40, 2001
Subjects: Authors, Scottish--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Canon (Literature)--Analysis, Lay of the Last Minstrel (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Poetry--Analysis, Romanticism--Research, Scott, Walter--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Understanding Media in 1805: Audiovisual Hallucination in The Lay of the Last Minstrel...a greater variety of audiovisual hallucinations. Read silently, the poetic figure...attribute this variety of audiovisual hallucinations to the poetic form as such; rather...
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On Hallucination, Intuition, and the Becoming of 'O.'
Journal article by Iain R. Edgar; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 5, 1999
Subjects: Books--Reviews
On Hallucination, Intuition, and the Becoming of O...particular, the experience and meaning of hallucination, and the gateway between conscious...the gap in communication into which hallucination and subjective projection can fly...
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Characteristics of Visual Hallucinations in Parkinson Disease Dementia and Dementia with Lewy Bodies
Journal article by Urs P. Mosimann, Elise N. Rowan, Cassie E. Partington, Daniel Collerton; The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Vol. 14, 2006
Characteristics of Visual Hallucinations in Parkinson Disease Dementia...dementia onset. Recurrent visual hallucinations (RVH) are prevalent (60%-80...The few studies addressing hallucination phenomenology in both disorders...
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Hearsay: From the Divinely Inspired to the Pathological, a History of Auditory Hallucination
Magazine article by Richard Restak; American Scholar, Vol. 76, Spring 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Rethinking the History, Science, and Meaning of Auditory Hallucination (Book)--Book reviews
...Pathological, a History of Auditory Hallucination. by Richard Restak MUSES...History, Science, and Meaning of Auditory Hallucination By Daniel B. Smith Penguin | $24.95...and deeply personal view of auditory hallucinations, such assumptions are exaggerated...
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FYI
Magazine article by Rachel Horn, Nicole Price Fasig, Carla Thomas; Popular Science, Vol. 269, October 2006
...are not the only causes of hallucination. Stress, fever, illness or...also trigger an episode. Hallucination, also called sensory deception...functions. The exact nature of hallucinations is poorly understood, but...
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Mary at Medjugorje: A Critical Inquiry
Magazine article by Hector Avalos; Free Inquiry, Vol. 14, Spring 1994
Subjects: Apparitions--Analysis, Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Apparitions and miracles, Medjugorje, Croatia--Religious aspects
...apparitions are not sleep or dream or hallucination in the medical or pathological sense...they discuss the definition of a "hallucination." The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines hallucination as "apparent perception of external...
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Amy Taubin
Magazine article by Amy Taubin; Artforum International, Vol. 44, December 2005
Subjects: Motion pictures--Evaluation, Movies--Evaluation
...HISTORY OF VIOLENCE (DAVID CRONENBERG) The perfect American family, the perfect American small town--how could they not be a hallucination? In this wide-angle version of Spider, the insanity is institutional, implicating us all. ILLUSTRATION OMITTED 2 2046...
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Big Bend
Magazine article by Bill Roorbach; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 287, March 2001
...Hunter) lay quietly awake for two hours before the line of his thoughts finally made the twitching conversion to mirage and hallucination that heralded ease and melting sleep. What had kept him awake was primarily a worry that he was being too much the imperious...
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MY DAY AT THE BEACH; EXCLUSIVE SHANNON SENSATION Fears She Was Drugged Confused Captivity Tale Hallucination of Trip Out
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), April 13, 2008
...Was Drugged Confused Captivity Tale Hallucination of Trip Out. Byline: By SIMON...Shannon Matthews is suffering nightmare hallucinations caused by her 24-day abduction. The...with her ordeal. One of the recurring hallucinations she is suffering is that she was actually...
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Morning Serial
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), February 14, 2007
...Serial. Byline: By Hayley Long Pull This was just a hallucination caused by the inhalation of the super-strength skunkweed...sweated. There was no denying it. This was a very vivid hallucination. YOURSELF Concentration was everything. Ashley felt his...
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Attacker 'Psychotic'; Judge Finds Man Unfit for Trial over Vicious Pub Assault
Newspaper article; Sunshine Coast Daily (Maroochydore, Australia), June 19, 2009
Subjects: Assault and battery
...SUNSHINE Coast man was "acting on a command hallucination" when he sliced an artery of a fellow patron...nature including visions, paranoia, auditory hallucinations (and) command hallucinations" that were "very severe" when the glassing...
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Paula, Webb, and Ken
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 15, 1998
Subjects: Jones, Paula, Starr, Kenneth W.
Paula, Webb, and Ken Our long national hallucination is over. Well, at least the fantastical sequence involving Paula Jones, that is. And the conclusion can hardly be said to have...
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The Democracy 'Quagmire' in Iraq; Media Fixates on the Negative
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 20, 2005
...The Democracy Quagmire in Iraq; Media Fixates on the Negative. Byline: Tod Lindberg, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Was that a hallucination we suffered last week at the quagmire? All those millions of, what were they, happy Iraqis, joyous Iraqis, turning out to...
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encyclopedia articles on: Hallucination  - 2 results

 
 
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Hallucination
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HALLUCINATION false perception characterized by a distortion of real sensory stimuli. Common types of hallucination are auditory, i.e., hearing voices or noises and...e., seeing people that are not actually present. Hallucinations play a prominent role in schizophrenia and in...
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Delusion
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DELUSION false belief based upon a misinterpretation of reality. It is not, like a hallucination, a false sensory perception, or like an illusion, a distorted perception. Delusions vary in intensity, and are not uncommon among...


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