--- In [email protected], Peter Sutphen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I've interacted with some of these beings. Some > are quite interested in humans and others are quite > aloof to the point of being comical. It might sound > bizarre, but it's no big deal. I barely notice this > stuff anymore, although a subtle being the size and > shape of a toad just ran across my desk as I was > typing this! > -Peter >
Uh, Pete...you're a working mental health professional, what would your colleagues say if you presented the above symptoms as if they belonged to a patient of yours and asked for an eval? I'm guessing one or more of the DSM-IV categories would apply, right?: "Considering the concept of hallucination, in DSM-IV the phenomenon is defined as a "sensory perception that has the compelling sense of reality of a true perception but that occurs without external stimulation of the relevant sensory organ" (American Psychiatric Association, 1994, p. 767). It is important to stress the cognitive point of view supported by Slade and Bentall, which is specified in the following working definition of hallucination: any percept-like experience which (a) occurs in the absence of an appropriate stimulus, (b) has the full force or impact of the corresponding actual (real) perception, and (c) is not amenable to direct and voluntary control by the experimenter (Slade and Bentall, 1988, p. 23)." http://www.psychologyinspain.com/content/full/1197/2bis.htm To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
