Musical Hallucinations

Sacks, Oliver; Blom, Jan Dirk

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-0959-5_11

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“…For most people, however, for most of the time, idiosyncratic perceptions are not best explained by these types of models. A recent major review of interdisciplinary approaches to hallucinations48 has argued that the research emphases in the field, to date, have stressed the use of scales and measures, with the overwhelming attention firmly devoted to the significance of pathology 53 71 72. Greatly unexplored and under-researched is an emphasis on understanding the actual content of unusual perceptions; the role of unusual perceptions in individuals from normal, non-clinical populations when these undergo personal change and crisis; and of the positive, well-being uses of these perceptions 51 73.…”

Section: Ways Forward: the Place Of Biography And Culture At The End mentioning

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Unusual perceptions at the end of life: limitations to the diagnosis of hallucinations in palliative medicine

Kellehear

2016

BMJ Support Palliat Care

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The diagnosis of hallucination for unusual perceptions such as deathbed visions, near-death experiences, or visions of the bereaved, is unhelpful in palliative medicine both academically and clinically. This paper reviews the broad prevalence data about unusual perceptions in the general population as background to identifying the more narrow epidemiological source from which the much smaller focus on hallucinations seem to emerge. Major debates and limitations of current hallucination research are reviewed to show that current academic and clinical certainties are largely confined to unusual perceptions that can be readily linked to psychopathology, quite specific organic disease states and psychoactive drug use. Current state-of-the-art in hallucination studies does not warrant broad or uncritical use of this type of diagnosis in end-of-life care. Conclusions from interdisciplinary (as opposed to single discipline) hallucination studies suggest that the way forward for clinical and research work in palliative medicine may lie in a more biographical and cultural approach to unusual perceptions at the end of life.

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Section: Ways Forward: the Place Of Biography And Culture At The End mentioning

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Unusual perceptions at the end of life: limitations to the diagnosis of hallucinations in palliative medicine

Kellehear

2016

BMJ Support Palliat Care

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“…Other forms of acquired synesthesia appear to be transient and may well be a more direct product of excitatory neural activity, similar in many respects to synesthetic experience occurring under the influence of hallucinogens (see below). An example would be synesthesia experienced during occipital and temporal lobe seizures, which can lead to brief experiences quite similar to psychedelic experiences (Devinsky and Luciano, 1991;Cytowic, 1997;Sacks, 2012). Some forms of acquired synesthesia could be undergird by a different mechanism not typically found after drug intoxication or aberrant neural development.…”

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Developing Synaesthesia

2015

Frontiers Research Topics

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“…Although it is associated with a number of conditions in addition to schizophrenia,20 it does not necessarily constitute a symptom of a mental disorder. Approximately 15% of ‘mentally healthy’ individuals report voice-hearing experiences 21 22.…”

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Henry's voices: the representation of auditory verbal hallucinations in an autobiographical narrative

Demjén

Semino

2014

Med Humanities

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The book Henry's Demons (2011) recounts the events surrounding Henry Cockburn's diagnosis of schizophrenia from the alternating perspectives of Henry himself and his father Patrick. In this paper, we present a detailed linguistic analysis of Henry's first-person accounts of experiences that could be described as auditory verbal hallucinations. We first provide a typology of Henry's voices, taking into account who or what is presented as speaking, what kinds of utterances they produce and any salient stylistic features of these utterances. We then discuss the linguistically distinctive ways in which Henry represents these voices in his narrative. We focus on the use of Direct Speech as opposed to other forms of speech presentation, the use of the sensory verbs hear and feel and the use of 'non-factive' expressions such as I thought and as if. We show how different linguistic representations may suggest phenomenological differences between the experience of hallucinatory voices and the perception of voices that other people can also hear. We, therefore, propose that linguistic analysis is ideally placed to provide in-depth accounts of the phenomenology of voice hearing and point out the implications of this approach for clinical practice and mental healthcare.

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Musical Hallucinations

Cited by 44 publications

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Unusual perceptions at the end of life: limitations to the diagnosis of hallucinations in palliative medicine

Unusual perceptions at the end of life: limitations to the diagnosis of hallucinations in palliative medicine

Developing Synaesthesia

Henry's voices: the representation of auditory verbal hallucinations in an autobiographical narrative

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