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Chronic Hallucinatory Psychosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Robert Hunter Steen*
Affiliation:
City of London Mental Hospital, King's College Hospital, London

Extract

For several years past my attention has been directed to a series of cases in which the principal symptom has been the presence of hallucinations.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1920 

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(2) As at the time I first saw this patient I was unacquainted with this variety of illness, I had considerable anxiety as to whether I should recommend that she should be sent to a mental hospital or not, more especially as the voice once said, “Kill yourself.” She had, however, either to remain at home or be certified—there was no other alternative—and I am now glad I stuck to my guns and kept her at home. What a case, however, for a psychiatric clinic! May these institutions soon come!Google Scholar

(3) Encéphale, vol. ii, 1911, p. 157.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

(4) Untranslatable.Google Scholar

(5) This patient now complains that she hears “silent voices”—her own expression. Compare Case 3.Google Scholar

(6) Dementia Præcox, Kraepelin, translated by R. Mary Barclay, p. 276.Google Scholar

(7) This matter is discussed in considerable detail in a paper by Roxo on “Délire Systematisée Hallucinatoire Chronique,” read at the International Congress of Medicine in London, 1913, and published in the Transactions, section “Psychiatry,” Part II, p. 104.Google Scholar

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