Talk:Pseudohallucination

This page should be deleted.
It is based on a wrong understanding of the word hallucination. A hallucination is a perception of something that is not really there, as opposed to an illusion which is a perception of something that is there e.g. a rope, but it seems different, eg seems to be a snake. Whether you realize that it is a hallucination does not come into it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.106.160.221 (talk) 10:45, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

Different interpretations of the concept 'pseudohallucinations'
I've read different explanations of the term. The article writes ″A pseudohallucination is an involuntary sensory experience vivid enough to be regarded as a hallucination, but recognised by the patient not to be the result of external stimul″ - according to sources I've read, the crucial difference of the 'real hallucinations' and 'pseudohallucinations' is that in case of the first ones, the person perceives objects that are not there but look like usual objects. In contrast, in case of pseudohallucinations, the person perceives things that are crucially different from real objects, e.g. when hearing voices, he does not hear usual people speaking, but rather 'electric voices', 'voice of the God' etc. However, this has nothing to do with pseudohallucinations being 'not real' - for the person hallucinating they are very real, the difference merely being that they are not like usual objects.--Lokalkosmopolit (talk) 09:54, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

″Unlike normal hallucination, which occurs when one sees, hears, smells, tastes or feels something that is not there, with a complelling feeling or thought that it is real, pseudohallucinations are recognised by the person as unreal.″ - no they are recognized as very real, just different from all normal objects.Lokalkosmopolit (talk) 09:56, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Redirect
Procrastinating for my exams, so added new Nonpsychotic hallucination article and redirected it to this page, in case people search for said term

P.S. I agree with immediately above argument with regards to illusions vs pseudohallucinations vs hallucinations - and so believe this page should remain. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tom.davey (talk • contribs) 23:21, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Atlernate uses of the term
From "Fish's psychopathology" - pseudohallucination is a term that creates confusion as there have been different approaches historically to the definition. Jasper (1962) defined pseudohallucinosis in terms of whether it had the characteristics of a true perception (substantial, discrete and well defined, occurring in objective rather than subjective space, constant and independant of will") - a true hallucination being a false experience that has the characteristics of a perception, a pseudohallucination being an experience that lacks these characteristics. (This is the definition that I find most commonly taught in psychiatric textbooks). Hare(1974) defined true vs pseudohallucinations in terms of whether the subject had insight into the nature of the stimuli.

From my own experience and reading, ever the term nonpsychotic hallucination can be misleading; as pseudohallucinosis (in both common senses of the term) can occur in the course of psychotic disorders. Any thoughts? 106.68.64.228 (talk) 15:22, 5 May 2015 (UTC)