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Experienced reality in somatic patients more than 65 years old
Author(s) -
Aggernes A.,
Myschetzky A.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1976.tb00116.x
Subject(s) - hallucinating , consciousness , psychology , sensation , fantasy , medicine , clinical psychology , psychiatry , cognitive psychology , art , neuroscience , literature , artificial intelligence , computer science
Eight experienced qulities of reality were examined in relation to five sorts of experience in 15 demented patients in clear states of consciousness (the CSC group), and in 15 patients in disturbed states of consciousness (the DSC group), Many more abnormal reality qualities appeared in the DSC than in the CSC group. In the DSC patients the tendency to experiencel non‐existent fantasy items as being real was so much greater than in the CSC patients that it will be of value in differential diagnosis if it is confirmed in other patient materials. In DSC patients, furthermore, positive qualities of sensation were found attached to many experiences of items which were not present in the actual stimulus field‐ even in patients who were not clinically hallucinated. The reliability of the results was controlled by having each patient evaluated by two psychiatrists.