The Use of Hallucinations in the Treatment of Psychotic Patients From: Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: Karon, Bertram P | Copyright Springer Publishing Company 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

"No one understands hallucinations."

The speaker might have been a psychiatrist or psychologist, but, in fact, he was a patient. Patients like to say that.

But hallucinations are simply wide-awake dreams, readily understandable by Freud's psychology of dreams, with minor modifications. Hallucinations are at least as useful in the treatment of psychotics as dreams are in the treatment of neurotics. After all, psychotics are more puzzling and are less likely to communicate clearly...

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