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Hallucination of soliloquy: Speaking component and hearing component of schizophrenic hallucinations
Author(s) -
Kobayashi Toshiyuki,
Kato Satoshi
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1046/j.1440-1819.2000.00748.x
Subject(s) - soliloquy , auditory hallucination , psychology , audiology , visual hallucination , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychosis , psychiatry , medicine , art , literature
In the present paper, two cases of schizophrenia with hallucinatory soliloquy are presented, and the concept of the symptom, hallucination of soliloquy is proposed. In hallucination of soliloquy, while having the experience of hearing his own voice, the patient has a conviction that he speaks out aloud, without actually vocalizing. It is an abnormal experience of both speaking and hearing; that is, a combination of auditory hallucination and motor hallucination. It is considered that hallucination of soliloquy is an exemplar of schizophrenic hallucinations.