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
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- Altered States
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VHS William Hurt 1980 The film is notable for the effort to depict
psychedelic
hallucinations resulting from drugs
and sensory deprivation.
Chayefsky, Paddy Altered States: A Novel (Hardcover - May 1978) - A Beautiful Mind (Widescreen Awards Edition) DVD | DVD widescreen | VHS (2002) Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer
- Bogus (1996) -- Whoopi Goldberg, Gérard Depardieu VHS
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas VHS | DVD widescreen | DVD widescreen with DTS Stereo Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro 1998
- Fisher King VHS Tape 1992 | DVD 1997 Robin Williams' character witnesses the senseless and brutal random killing of his wife. He leaves his former way of life for the streets and is periodically plagued by hallucinations of an evil knight on horseback. Could this be posttraumatic stress disorder or just the author's fantasy of a mental disorder?
- Gothika (2003) DVD widescreen | DVD | VHS Halle Berry, Robert Downey, Jr., Charles Dutton
- Harvey
DVD James Stewart, Charles Drake, Cecil Kellaway 1950
- Meyer, Nicholas The Seven-Per-Cent Solution - Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. (Norton Paperback) 1993
- Ray VHS | DVD widescreen | DVD | Theatrical Jamie Foxx 2004 Prism Award winner
- Requiem for a Dream VHS | DVD 2000 Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto
- The Seven-Percent Solution DVD | VHS (1976) Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave 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.
