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Paper on 'The hallucinations of widowhood'

Identifier

000024

Type of Spiritual Experience

Hallucination

Number of hallucinations: 1

Background

This paper on Pubmed was called “Visual Hallucinations in Mild Dementia” and is by  Raphael J. Leo, M.D., and Kristin Stievater Ahrens, M.D.  It has a slight ring of condescension about it, but the evidence is good.

The wording is rather amusing, but what they are saying is that people [not just widows], who are for some reason or another suffering intense grief, can also suffer from hallucinations, although as it correctly says occasionally the hallucinations are not ‘suffered’ they can prove oddly comforting.

A description of the experience

Isolated visual hallucinations, that is, in the absence of commensurate psychological symptoms, are not characteristic of psychiatric disorders.  One exception might be the brief visual hallucinations that reportedly occur with widowhood.  However, in such cases, elderly widows demonstrate grief and intense longing in association with the visual images of the deceased spouse. Such images are usually not distressing to the patient, and tend to resolve with appropriate resolution of appropriate grief reactions.

The source of the experience

PubMed

Concepts, symbols and science items

Concepts

Symbols

Science Items

Activities and commonsteps

Activities

Overloads

Grief

Commonsteps

References

Olson PR, Suddeth JA, Peterson PJ, et al: Hallucinations of widowhood. J Am Geriatr Soc 1985; 33:543–547
Adair DK, Keshavan MS: The Charles Bonnet syndrome and grief reaction (letter). Am J Psychiatry 1988; 145:895

Pubmed