Objective: Hallucination studies in psychiatry have typically focused on the auditory domain, despite mounting evidence that non-auditory hallucinations are prevalent, and elicit distress and functional interference. Proponents have called for more in-depth phenomenological enquiries into hallucinations across multiple sensory modalities, but there are no comprehensive, validated assessment...
The study of hallucinations across multiple senses in psychosis has garnered renewed interest. Recent studies have adopted the term multimodal hallucinations to describe these experiences, yet some appear to be investigating a different, but related, phenomenon. In the current paper, we suggest use of the terms multimodal hallucinations and multisensory hallucinations to categorise distinct...