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Nintendo hallucinations: a new phenomenological entity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2014

Sean A Spence
Sean A Spence*
Affiliation:
Gordon Hospital, Bloomburg Street, London SW1V 2RH, England
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Abstract

Increasing exposure to video technology has provoked descriptions of psychopathology related to playing video games. However, there exists no description of hallucinatory phenomena occuring in psychotic illness deriving from such material. The subject of this report is one such patient suffering from a persistent auditory hallucination of computer music and other non-verbal information.

Keywords

NintendoComputerPsychosisHallucinationsVideo games
Type
Clinical & Brief Reports
Information
Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , June 1993 , pp. 98 - 99
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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