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...
When we meditate for the first time, we may be surprised by the nature of our background thoughts, feelings and sensations and in particular by the mind’s incessant chatter as we attempt to perceive the space between thoughts and the nature of mind itself, which is the essence of meditation. In this experiential session, we will introduce the participants to some simple meditation techniques....
The author presents a survey of the literature, together with a study of the phenomena of déjà vu and depersonalization in a largely healthy population. He concludes that the déjà vu experience as elicited by a clinical type interview is common particularly in intelligent subjects of higher socioeconomic status. Well defined depersonalization experiences will also be elicited by clinical...