hallucination
91incomplete hallucination — The term incomplete hallucination is used to denote a hallucination that lacks one or more of the formal characteristics of the full blown perceptual phenomenon. For example, the term is used to denote a visual hallucination that lacks the… …
92peduncular hallucination — Also known as peduncular hallucinosis, pedunculopontine hallucinosis, Lhermitte s hallucinosis, Lhermitte syndrome, *brainstem hallucination, and mesencephalic hallucinosis. The eponyms Lhermitte s hallucinosis and Lhermitte syndrome refer to… …
93auditory hallucination — Also known as acoustic hallucination, aural hallucination, and hallucination of hearing. Auditory hallucinations are the most prevalent type of hallucinations in adults with or without a history of psychiatric illness. It is estimated that the …
94auditory verbal hallucination — (AVH) Also known as verbal auditory hallucination, voice hallucination, *phoneme, hallucinated speech, and voices . The term auditory verbal hallucination (AVH) is often used as a synonym for verbal auditory hallucination (VAH), both terms… …
95bilateral hallucination — Also known as bilateral auditory hallucination. Both expressions are indebted to the Latin words bi (two) and latus (side). The term bilateral hallucination translates roughly as two sided hallucination . The term is used mainly with reference …
96dissociative hallucination — The term dissociative hallucination is indebted to the Latin words dis (apart, away from each other) and associare (to gather, to unite). In its broadest sense, the term dissociative hallucination is considered more or less synonymous with… …
97hypnotically induced hallucination — Also referred to as hypnotic hallucination and induced hallucination. The first two terms refer to the notion of hypnosis, which is in turn indebted to the Greek noun hupnos (sleep). The term hypnotically induced hallucination is used to… …
98memory hallucination — Also known as hallucinatory memory, hallucination of memory, and memory illusion. The German expression Halluzination der Erinnerung was introduced in or shortly before 1866 by the German psychiatrist Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum (1828 1899) to denote …
99microptic hallucination — Also known as microscopic hallucination and diminutive visual hallucination. The term microptic hallucination is indebted to the Greek words mikros (small) and opsis (seeing). It refers to a type of *visual hallucination in which the… …
100physiological hallucination — The term physiological hallucination is used to denote a hallucination occurring in the absence of any other psychopathology, and in the presence of preserved insight. It was used in 1845 by the French alienist Alexandre Jacques François… …
