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KMID : 0438219740110010641
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Korea University Medical Journal
1974 Volume.11 No. 1 p.641 ~ p.654
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Clinical studies of hallucinations in psychiatric patients
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Abstract
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The clinical studies were made on the 294 hallucinating patients which were interviewed and confirmed by the process of treatment at Neuropsychiatry Department of Woo Sok Hospital, Korea University, Medical College from Jan. 1968 to Dec. 1972.
The results obtained are as follows:
1. According to the clinical categories, in the cases of schizophrenia 32.7% of them, in the cases of affective psychosis 9.5% -of them, in the cases of organic brain syndrome 5.2% of them in the cases of other psychosis 3.3% of them and in the cases of psychoneurosis 0.3% of them revealed hallucinations respectively.
2. As to the forms of hallucinations according to the clinical diagnosis it was revealed that auditory hallucination occupied 70.7% of all the "hallucinations, and 81.8% of schizophrenic patients showed auditory hallucinations while 47.4% of organic brain syndrome patients exhibited visual hallucinations.
3. The mean age of hallucinating patients was 31.6 years old.
4. According to the occupational distribution among the male patients student showed the highest rate of 25.9% and among the female patients housewife showed the higest rate of 50.7%.
5. As to the religious distribution non-religious group showed highest rate of hallucinations.
6. Among all of the hallucinating patients 77.9% of them had delusional ideas, and in the cases of having auditory hallucinations 88.9% of them showed delusional ideas while in the cases of having visual hallucinations 33.3% of them showed delusional ideas.
7. As to the nature of auditory hallucinations 95.0% of them were unpleasant ones. About 50. 0% of auditory hallucinations occupied accusatory natures.
8. The contents of visual hallucinations in organic brain syndrome showed that impersonal materials occupied the highest rate of 54.5% while in the schizophrenic cases devil occupied 29.4%.
9. As to the object of auditory hallucinations, the voices "of coming from unknown person occupied the highest rate of 29.3%.
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