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THE AFFECTIVE NATURE OF ILLUSION AND HALLUCINATION. PART II: EIDETIC IMAGERY

1931; BMJ; Volume: s1-12; Issue: 45 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/jnnp.s1-12.45.1

1468-330X

E. Miller,

Diverse Scientific Research in Ukraine

BEFORE we can fully appreciate the nature of hallucination as a disturbance in the mental life related to sensory experience, we are obliged to relate the phenomenon of non-experiential seeing to the true visual roots in actual neuro- psychological events.For this we must return to the visual sensory experience and its residua in after-images and so-called eidetic experiences.The whole nature of psychosis cannot be uinderstood unless we relate it to the total field of neurological and psychological evenits.By so doing, the constitutional a,s well as the events historical to the subject will be taken into account.The orientation in psychiatry to-day is towards the establishment of the constitutional factors on the one hand, and the tracing of psychological processes involved on the other.Constitution is a distractingly wide term, and may become a cemetery in which dead entities are buried-and perhaps the patient too.But in so far as we attempt to trace the elements making up a constitution and the biological processes involved in the concatenation of these elements, we will be the better able to prognosticate and to assign therapeutic measures of the necessary kind suited to a particular type.On the other hand, the tracing of psychological histories will, apart from throwing interest upon mechanisms of instinct and emotion, relieve those ten- sions and correct such errors of perspective as have giveni rise to maladaptation and psychological collapse.The shortcomings of this approach lie in the difficulty experienced by clinicians with a theoretical bent in accepting the universality, on the one hand, of psychic mechanisms and complexes, and on the other, the only partial distribution of psychosis and the eventual classes into which these psychoses fall.