Anastasia Lim

Multimodal Hallucinations in Muslim Patients with Severe Psychotic Disorders: The Entity Experience Revisited.

Psychopathology September 25, 2025 Anastasia Lim, Hans W Hoek, Jan Dirk Blom

Introduction: In biomedicine, entity experiences are conceptualised as compound hallucinations featuring living beings. The term "experience" suggests that these have an objective basis in reality, as those perceiving them may maintain. So-called jinn encounters, typically described by Muslims with and without a psychiatric diagnosis, involve the multimodal perception of a spirit that, as...