Journal Article10.1111/J.1600-0447.1976.TB00116.X
Experienced reality in somatic patients more that 65 years old. A comparative study of disturbed and clear, but demented states of consciousness.
A. Aggernes,A Myschetzky +1 more
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TL;DR: In the DSC patients the tendency to experiencel non‐existent fantasy items as being real was so much greater than in the CSC patients that it will be of value in differential diagnosis if it is confirmed in other patient materials.
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Abstract: Eight experienced qulities of reality were examined in relation to five sorts of experience in 15 demented patients in clear states of consciousness (the CSC group), and in 15 patients in disturbed states of consciousness (the DSC group), Many more abnormal reality qualities appeared in the DSC than in the CSC group In the DSC patients the tendency to experiencel non-existent fantasy items as being real was so much greater than in the CSC patients that it will be of value in differential diagnosis if it is confirmed in other patient materials In DSC patients, furthermore, positive qualities of sensation were found attached to many experiences of items which were not present in the actual stimulus field- even in patients who were not clinically hallucinated
The reliability of the results was controlled by having each patient evaluated by two psychiatrists
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