A 15 year old boy is brought to hospital by his mother who found him smoking cannabis that he'd found in his fathers garage. The boy appears anxious and paranoid and tells you that a spirit is pulling his arm off his body. He also describes feeling like his muscles are being squeezed. Which of the following hallucination is illustrated by this example?
Exam Question Jul 2014
Visceral hallucinations relate to false perceptions of the inner organs.
Hygric hallucinations relate to false perceptions of fluid (e.g. all my blood has dropped to my legs and I can feel the water level at my chest).
Exam Question Jul 2014
Visceral hallucinations relate to false perceptions of the inner organs.
Hygric hallucinations relate to false perceptions of fluid (e.g. all my blood has dropped to my legs and I can feel the water level at my chest).
Hallucinations (types)
A hallucination is a perception in the absence of a stimulus.
Types of hallucination include:-
Auditory - These can be first person (aka gedankenlautwerdenor echo de la pense) where a patient hears their own thoughts, second person where a patient hears a voice talk directly to them, or third person where a patient hears voice having a discussion.
Visual - These are more common in organic condition such as temporal lobe epilepsy and drug intoxication.
Gustatory - These refer to hallucinations of taste
Olfactory - These refer to hallucinations of smell
Tactile (haptic) - There refer to false perceptions of touch
Functional hallucinations - A patient experiences an hallucination at the same time as receiving a real stimulus in the same sensory modality
Extracampine hallucination - These are hallucinations beyond the possible sensory field
Reflex hallucinations - These occur in one sensory modality in response to a real stimulus in another sensory modality
Hypnopompic hallucinations - These occur as a patient is waking from sleep (these are normal experiences)
Hypnagogic hallucinations - These occur as a patient is going to sleep (these are normal experiences)
Lilliputian hallucinations - These are visual hallucinations whereby the patient experiences seeing people who appear reduced in size or dwarfed
Kinaesthetic hallucinations - These relate to hallucinations of muscle or joint sense. Patient's may describe that their limbs are being twisted or bent, or their muscles squeezed. They may also described being rocked about
Autoscopic hallucinations - This refers to a person's experience of seeing a double of themselves in extrapersonal space without the experience of leaving ones body (no disembodiment).
