psychopathology: hallucination

This psychotic symptom found in a variety of serious mental disorders involves sensory perceptual distortions, for example seeing (visual), hearing (auditory), smelling (olfactory), feeling (haptic, tactile), or tasting (gustatory) sensations that others would not sense and do not exist outside one's perception.

Also: command hallucination, delusion, paranoia, hallucinate, vision

• Altered States DVD William Hurt 1980
  The film is notable for the effort to depict psychedelic hallucinations resulting from drugs and sensory deprivation.
• A Beautiful Mind DVD Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer 2002
• Bogus Whoopi Goldberg, Gérard Depardieu 1996
• Chayefsky, Paddy Altered States: A Novel (Hardcover - May 1978)
• A Christmas Carol DVD Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison 1951
• A Christmas Tale Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, and Anne Consigny 2008
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas DVD Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro 1998
• The Fisher King DVD Robin Williams 1997
• Georgia Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mare Winningham, Ted Levine, and Max 1995
• Gothika DVD Halle Berry, Robert Downey, Jr., Charles Dutton 2003
• Harvey DVD James Stewart, Charles Drake, Cecil Kellaway 1950
• Hobson's Choice Charles Laughton, John Mills, and Brenda De Banzie 1953
• Meyer, Nicholas The Seven-Per-Cent Solution - Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. (Norton Paperback) 1993
• Ray DVD Jamie Foxx 2004
• Requiem for a Dream DVD 2000 Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto
• The Ruling Class Peter O'Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe, and Harry Andrews 1972
• The Seven-Percent Solution DVD Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave 1976 In the film Sigmund Freud (Arkin) cures Sherlock Holmes (Nicol Williamson) of cocaine dependence. One scene attempts to represent the experience of hallucination of snakes.
• The Snake Pit DVD Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, and Celeste Holm 1948
• The Soloist DVD Robert Downey, Jr., Jamie Foxx, Catherine Keener, and Stephen Root
• Spider DVD Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne 2002
• The Three Faces of Eve Joan Woodward, Lee J. Cobb 1957
• Through a Glass Darkly Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow, and Lars Passgård 1961
• Ward, Mary Jane Snake Pit library binding 1996

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