Deciphering Functional Hallucinations – Insights from Three Patients with Schizophrenia
Annals of Indian Psychiatry May 18, 2026 Shruti Garg, Niharika Malhotra, Preeti Singh
Abstract Hallucinations may involve any of the sensory modalities – auditory, visual, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory and may present in mixed or complex perceptual hallucinations. Among the rarer forms of hallucinations are functional hallucinations. Functional hallucinations are a rare and understudied phenomenon in which hallucinations are consistently triggered by a specific real external...