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Talk:Hallucinatory states
Classification
- Command hallucination, imperative hallucination - http://hallucinations.enacademic.com/968/imperative_hallucination, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination#Command
- Verbal auditory hallucination (VAH) is more neutral: http://hallucinations.enacademic.com/1997
- Somatic hallucination, somatosensory hallucination - http://hallucinations.enacademic.com/1747/somatic_hallucination, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination#General_somatic_sensations
- Mood-congruent hallucination - http://hallucinations.enacademic.com/1188/mood-congruent_hallucination. Mood-incongruent hallucination - http://hallucinations.enacademic.com/1189/mood-incongruent_hallucination
Cause
Can we add a Cause section like this?:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination#Cause
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination#Hypnagogic_hallucination
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination#Drug-induced_hallucination
- Drug-induced hallucination, psychedelic hallucination - http://hallucinations.enacademic.com/534/drug-induced_hallucination
- Withdrawal hallucination - http://hallucinations.enacademic.com/2013/withdrawal_hallucination
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination#Sensory_deprivation_hallucination
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination#Experimentally-induced_hallucinations
--David Hedlund (talk) 03:33, 13 December 2017 (CET)
Levels
I suggest that we add a level system to the page. Something like:
- Simple hallucination, elementary hallucination - http://hallucinations.enacademic.com/1718/simple_hallucination, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination (search "elementary")
- Pseudohallucination - http://hallucinations.enacademic.com/1548/pseudohallucination, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudohallucination
- True hallucination, genuine hallucinations, veridical hallucinations, and hallucinations proper - http://hallucinations.enacademic.com/1927/true_hallucination
Reply
- @David Hedlund: While "The Dictionary of Hallucinations" by Jan Dirk Blom is a legitimate academic work, the classificatory and definition scheme it uses is not established or widely used in the field. As a result, it cannot be used as the sole reference to justify a proposed change. Please make sure any proposed changes are generally reflective of the current consensus in the scientific and academic commmunities, meaning it should be validated by multiple sources across the discipline, not just a single person or group. Anything else could reasonably be labeled as original research, advocacy, or POV-pushing, which would violate our neutrality and "due weight" policies.
- Here are some excerpts from a published peer review that suggests that this book should not be taken as an authoritative reference:
- "While A Dictionary of Hallucinations is recommended for large academic libraries, especially those with a medical history collection, it is problematic for clinical or research-oriented organizations. Much of the book's fascinating elements serve to make it cumbersome for the practitioner... Additionally, each of the many entries describing a psychoactive substance ends with the statement, “A person intentionally employing [substance] for the purpose of exploring the psyche may be called a psychonaut.” While this may be a fact, it is a fact inessential to the definition, and the decision to include it so often hints at an unrevealed authorial agenda." (source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3133898/) --Clarity (talk) 07:16, 19 December 2017 (CET)