Hallucinations and illusions : a study of the fallacies of perception / Edmund Parish.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parish, Edmund, author.

Series:

Contemporary science series.

Contemporary science series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hallucinations and illusions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 390 pages).

Other Title:

Hallucinations and illusions

Place of Publication:

London : Walter Scott Publishing Company, 1902.

Summary:

This book originated in an examination, upon which I was recently engaged, of the "International Census of Waking Hallucinations in the Sane." While comparing for this purpose all the works accessible to me on hallucination and fallacious perception in general, I was struck by the fact that the writers, and especially the more modern writers, treat for the most part only of single aspects of the subject, such as fallacies of perception occurring under morbid conditions, or in dreams, throwing at most but a casual glance at related phenomena. The waking hallucinations of healthy persons are more or less completely ignored by them; and this neglect is natural enough, if we consider how meagre are all the accounts of such phenomena hitherto published.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.