elementary hallucinations

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• classification of hallucinations —    Hallucinations are classified in a multitude of ways. As in all classifications, the resulting arrangements are subordinate to the purpose of the classification at hand, and to the guiding principles involved. An implicit purpose of… …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

• elementary hallucination —    see simple hallucination …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

• atropine and hallucinations —    The name atropine derives from Atropos,in Greek mythology the name of one of the Fates who held the shears used to cut the thread of human life. It is a highly potent tropane alkaloid that occurs in many species of the plant family Solanaceae …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

• general elementary somatopsychosis —    see acenesthesia …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

• blank hallucination —    The term blank hallucination was introduced in or shortly before 1961 by the German American psychoanalyst Max M. Stern (18951982) to denote a collection of simple hallucinatory phenomena such as the sense that one is floating in space,… …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

• primitive hallucination —    A term used (and possibly also introduced) in 1930 by the German psychologists Konrad Zucker and Julius Zâdor in the context of a study of * mescaline induced hallucinations to denote a relatively simple type of hallucination. Judging by the… …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

• simple hallucination —    Also referred to as elementary hallucination. Both terms are used to denote a hallucination of the lowest degree of complexity. In the auditory modality, simple hallucinations are known as * akoasms. Common examples of akoasms are clicking… …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

• visual hallucination —    Also referred to as vision. Both terms are indebted to the Latin noun visio, which means sight. They are used to denote a hallucination of sight. Historically, visual hallucinations have been divided into a multitude of types. Using their… …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

• geometric hallucination —    Also known as geometrical hallucination, geometric visual hallucination, and optogeometric illusion. All four terms can be traced to the Greek noun geometria, which means land surveying. They are used to denote a * formed visual hallucination… …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

• complex hallucination —    A term used to denote a phenomenologically rich and often well organized type of hallucination that is confined to a single sensory modality. Theoretically, complex hallucinations may present in any of the sensory modalities. It is customary,… …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

• Hildegard of Bingen — (1098 1179)    Also known as St. Hildegard. A German Benedictine abbess and mystic whose advanced social and theological views are based on a series of visions she experienced from the age of 3. On the basis of her own portrayals of these visions …   Dictionary of Hallucinations