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What type of hallucinations is most common in a patient with schizophrenia?

What type of hallucinations is most common in a patient with schizophrenia? Correct Answer auditory

Hallucination is a false perception that has a compulsive sense of the reality of objects although relevant and adequate stimuli for such perception are lacking. It is an abnormal phenomenon.

Types of hallucinations:

  1. Auditory hallucinations are most common in a patient with schizophrenia. Patients hear sounds or voices that speak words, phrases, and sentences directly to the patient (second-person hallucination) or talk to one another referring to the patient as s/he (third-person hallucination).
  2. Tactile hallucinations (i.e. forms of tingling, burning),
  3. Somatic hallucinations (i.e. something happening inside the body such as a snake crawling inside one’s stomach),
  4. visual hallucinations (i.e. vague perceptions of color or distinct visions of people or objects),
  5. gustatory hallucinations (i.e. food or drink taste strange), and
  6. olfactory hallucinations (i.e. smell of poison or smoke)

1) Schizophrenia 

  • It involves a range of problems with thinking (cognition), behavior, and emotions. 
  • Signs and symptoms may vary, but usually involve delusions, hallucinations, or disorganized speech, and reflect an impaired ability to function. Schizophrenia is a psychosis, a type of mental illness characterized by distortions in thinking, perception, emotions, language, sense of self, and behavior.

Common experiences include:

  • hallucination: hearing, seeing, or feeling things that are not there;
  • delusion: fixed false beliefs or suspicions not shared by others in the person’s culture and that are firmly held even when there is evidence to the contrary;
  • abnormal behavior: disorganized behavior such as wandering aimlessly, mumbling or laughing to self (self-talk), strange appearance, self-neglect, or appearing unkempt;
  • disorganized speech: incoherent or irrelevant speech; and/or
  • disturbances of emotions: marked apathy or disconnect between reported emotion and what is observed such as a facial expression or body language.

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