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Acute Transient Stress-Induced Hallucinations in Soldiers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Baruch Spivak ,
Susan F. Trottern ,
Mordechai Mark ,
Avraham Bleich  and
Abraham Weizman
Baruch Spivak*
Affiliation:
Geha Psychiatric Hospital, Beilinson Medical Center, Petah Tiqva 49100, Israel
Susan F. Trottern
Affiliation:
Israel Defense Forces, Psychiatric Service
Mordechai Mark
Affiliation:
Israel Defense Forces, Tel Hashomer, and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Avraham Bleich
Affiliation:
Israel Defense Forces, and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Abraham Weizman
Affiliation:
Geha Psychiatric Hospital, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

Three cases of stress-induced hallucinations in young soldiers are described. The hallucinatory experience was not accompanied by gross psychopathology. The phenomenology and psychopathological implications of hallucinations following exposure to environmental stress are discussed.

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Brief Reports
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 160 , Issue 3 , March 1992 , pp. 412 - 414
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1992 

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