Understanding cultural and religious beliefs related to mental illness is essential for the effective delivery of psychiatric care in a culturally diverse and spiritually embedded country such as India. This single-case study examines a young adult male with paranoid schizophrenia whose delusions incorporated spiritual and cultural narratives, including ancestral curses, divine powers, and...
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...