The qualitative difference of visions and visual hallucinations: a comparison of a general-population and clinical sample

To access publisher full text version of this article. Please click on the hyperlink in Additional Links field Our objective was to analyze the frequency and quality of visions in a general-population sample compared with those experienced among schizophrenics. A sample group from the general popula...

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Published in:Comprehensive Psychiatry
Main Authors: Lindal, E, Stefansson, J G, Stefansson, S B
Other Authors: Department of Psychiatry, National University Hospital, Reykjavík, Iceland.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: W.B. Saunders 2011
Subjects:
Adult
Aged
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Hallucinations
Humans
Iceland
Imagination
Incidence
Male
Middle Aged
Parapsychology
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenic Psychology
Visual Perception
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2336/120486
https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-440X(94)90282-8
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Summary:To access publisher full text version of this article. Please click on the hyperlink in Additional Links field Our objective was to analyze the frequency and quality of visions in a general-population sample compared with those experienced among schizophrenics. A sample group from the general population (n = 862) was compared with a group of schizophrenic patients (n = 19). Significant and qualitative differences were found in visions experienced by schizophrenic patients compared with subjects in the population sample. Women were more likely to experience visions of relatives than were men. The general population most commonly experienced visions of people, whereas schizophrenics were more likely to experience other phenomena. A qualitative difference thus exists in the type of visions experienced by schizophrenics compared with visions experienced by subjects from the general public.

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