Open AccessAlcoholic hallucinosis
Author(s) -
Pookala Shivaram Bhat,
Vssr Ryali,
Kalpana Srivastava,
S. Ashok Kumar,
Jyoti Prakash,
Ankit Singal
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
industrial psychiatry journal/industrial psychiatry journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-2795
pISSN - 0972-6748
DOI - 10.4103/0972-6748.119646
Subject(s) - delirium tremens , psychology , psychiatry , chronic alcoholic , auditory hallucination , alcohol abuse , mood , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , medicine , psychosis
Alcoholic hallucinosis is a rare complication of chronic alcohol abuse characterized by predominantly auditory hallucinations that occur either during or after a period of heavy alcohol consumption. Bleuler (1916) termed the condition as alcohol hallucinosis and differentiated it from Delirium Tremens. Usually it presents with acoustic verbal hallucinations, delusions and mood disturbances arising in clear consciousness and sometimes may progress to a chronic form mimicking schizophrenia. One such case with multimodal hallucinations in a Defence Service Corps soldier is presented here.