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Origin and Mechanisms of Hallucinations

Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychiatric Research Association held in New York City, November 14–15, 1969

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  • © 1970

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Editors:
  1. Wolfram Keup

    1. Research Institute, Brooklyn State Hospital, Brooklyn, USA
      Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, College of Medicine, Brooklyn, USA

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Table of contents (39 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Organic Basis of Hallucinations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Neurologic Syndromes and Hallucinations

      • M. Baldwin
      Pages 3-12

    3. Hallucinations on Brain Stimulation: Evidence for Revision of the Penfield Hypothesis

      • M. J. Horowitz, J. E. Adams
      Pages 13-22

    4. Visual Illusions and Hallucinations in Parieto-Occipital Lesions of the Brain

      • M. Feldman, M. B. Bender
      Pages 23-36

    5. The Influences of the Standard Prefrontal Lobotomy Operation on Hallucinatory Phenomena Associated with Psychotomimetic Drugs

      • J. M. C. Holden, T. Itil
      Pages 37-52

    6. Relationships between Delusions and Hallucinations in Brain Disease

      • E. A. Weinstein
      Pages 53-58

    7. Transactional Paths in the Reticular Activating System

      • M. E. Scheibel, A. B. Scheibel
      Pages 59-70

    8. Changes in Digital Computer Analyzed EEG During “Dreams” and Experimentally Induced Hallucinations

      • T. M. Itil
      Pages 71-92

  3. Psychological Basis of Hallucinations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. The Maturation Process and Hallucinations in Children

      • L. Bender
      Pages 95-102

    3. Imagery and Reality: Can they be Distinguished?

      • S. J. Segal
      Pages 103-114

    4. Do You See Things that Aren’t there ? Construct Validity of the Concept “Hallucination”

      • R. Rabkin
      Pages 115-124

    5. Hallucinations, Dreaming and Rem Sleep

      • I. Feinberg
      Pages 125-132

    6. Reported Sensations and Hallucinations in Sensory Deprivation — Research Data Pertinent to Thirteen Hypotheses and a Reformulation

      • M. Zuckerman
      Pages 133-148

    7. Sensory Deprivation in Life Situations

      • E. Ziskind
      Pages 149-154

    8. Hypnotically Induced Hallucinations: Their Diagnostic and Therapeutic Utilization

      • L. Alexander
      Pages 155-166

    9. Hypnosis, Suggestions, and Auditory-Visual “Hallucinations”: A Critical Analysis

      • T. X. Barber
      Pages 167-180

    10. The Veridicality of Hypnotic, Visual Hallucinations

      • J. P. Brady
      Pages 181-182

    11. Hallucination and Trance: An Anthropologist’s Perspective

      • E. Bourguignon
      Pages 183-190
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About this book

Hallucinations, a natural phenomenon as old as mankind, have a surprisingly wide range. They appear under the most diversified conditions, in the "normal" psyche as well as in severe chronic mental derangement. As a symptom, hallucinations are a potential part of a variety of pathological conditions in almost all kinds of psychotic behavior. In addition, lately, various psychological and sociological circumstances seem to favor widespread use and abuse of hallucinogens, substances able to produce hallucinations in the normal brain. They not rarely lead to serious psychopatho­ logy such as toxic, and mobilized or aggravated endogenous psycho­ ses. While such development adds to our scientific knowledge, it also contributes to our current social troubles. Neurologists and neuro-surgeons, psychiatrists, psychologists and other specialized researchers constantly have been dealing with the phenomenon, its roots and branches, and yet, its primary mechanisms are largely un­ known. However, investigators of hallucinations now seem to enter common ground on which meaningful discussions and joint approaches become feasible and more promising. We have come a long way from the Latin term "hallucinari", meaning to talk nonsense, to be absent-minded, to the modern con­ cept of "hallucinations". While the Latin word was descriptive of what may be due to hallucinations, the modern concept defines hal­ lucinations as subjective experiences that are consequences of men­ tal processes, sometimes fulfilling a purpose in the individual's mental life.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Research Institute, Brooklyn State Hospital, Brooklyn, USA

    Wolfram Keup

  • Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, College of Medicine, Brooklyn, USA

    Wolfram Keup

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Origin and Mechanisms of Hallucinations

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychiatric Research Association held in New York City, November 14–15, 1969

  • Editors: Wolfram Keup

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8645-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1970

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4615-8647-0Published: 15 February 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-8645-6Published: 17 April 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 480

  • Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Psychology, general

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