Abstract
An unusual Case of Autoscopic Hallucination: A Case Report and Review of Literature
Highlights
Autoscopic hallucination is the rarest psychopathology which has not been reported as much as like other psychopathology
Autoscopic hallucination is an interesting phenomenon since the past many years but has not been reported much in a clinical setting
We are reporting a female patient presenting with the autoscopic hallucination presented with Schizophrenia
Summary
Autoscopic hallucination is the rarest psychopathology which has not been reported as much as like other psychopathology. Autoscopy is the word derived from the Greek words ‘Autos’ (self) and ‘skopeo’ (looking at) [1] It is a visual hallucination in which an individual experiences, all or part of the person’s own body appeared within the external space, viewed from his/her physical body [2]. This phenomenon has been reported in association with organic pathology like meningitis, seizures, space-occupying lesions, brain tumours, migraine, delirium, post-traumatic brain lesions etc [1,3,4,5,6,7]. In the indexed case report, we present here a case of a young schizophrenic female who presented with rare phenomenon of autoscopic hallucination since last five years
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