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Solitary confinement 001261
Identifier
001261
Type of Spiritual Experience
Out of body
Vision
Hallucination
Background
A description of the experience
Am J Psychiatry. 1983 Nov;140(11):1450-4. Psychopathological effects of solitaryconfinement. - Grassian S.
Psychopathological reactions to solitary confinement were extensively described by nineteenth-century German clinicians.
In the United States there have been several legal challenges to the use of solitary confinement, based on allegations that it may have serious psychiatric consequences.
The recent medical literature on this subject has been scarce.
The author describes psychiatric symptoms that appeared in 14 inmates exposed to periods of increased social isolation and sensory restriction in solitary confinement and asserts that these symptoms form a major, clinically distinguishable psychiatric syndrome.
PMID: 6624990
The source of the experience
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Concepts
Symbols
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
Fury, overwhelming rage and angerHumiliation
Loneliness and isolation
Suppressions
Sensory deprivationSuppression of learning