Mediumistic psychosis

The mediumistic psychosis (Exception: psychographic psychosis) is a mental disorder whose name goes back in 1919 on the psychiatrist Henneberg and later by the psychologist Hans Bender and John Mischo were taken up again.

Mediumistic psychosis describes a disorder of non-organic origin that is associated with acoustic or visual hallucinations . It can show itself in some followers of various occult or spiritualistic practices, especially if they believe that they are in contact with otherworldly spirits. The people affected report hearing voices in particular and believe that they are actually connected to the spirits of the deceased.

literature

• Hans Bender: Mediumistic Psychoses. A contribution to the pathology of spiritualistic practices. In: Journal for Parapsychology and Frontier Areas of Psychology. 2 (1959), pp. 173-201.
• Johannes Mischo: Occultism among young people. Results of an empirical study. Matthias-Grünewald, Mainz 1991, ISBN 3-7867-1525-4 .
• Johannes Mischo: Belief in parapsychic phenomena: Schizotypic patterns in thinking and behavior? In: TW Neurology Psychiatry. 10 (1996), pp. 266-272.

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