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Thanks for sharing your experience. My understanding is that the hallucinations experienced by schizophrenics do not rise to the level of being a "personality"
by drdec 4y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience.
My understanding is that the hallucinations experienced by schizophrenics do not rise to the level of being a "personality". Yes, for the person experiencing the hallucination, the source appears to be an "other". But the other in this case is usually single-minded and not a fully-formed personality.
OTOH, I certainly do not discount the possibility that for some schizophrenics this is not the case.
Rereading your comment again just now I think we agree more than we disagree and this probably comes down to semantics. : - )
https://www.livescience.com/55379-schizophrenia-multiple-personalities.html https://www.livescience.com/55379-schizophrenia-multiple-per...
- lisper 4y ago> the other in this case is usually single-minded and not a fully-formed personality That's a fair point. I think some of my subjects reported being able to have conversations with the other, but this was a long time ago so I could be mis-remembering. But I still have the interview recordings if anyone really wants to dig into this.