
One Person's Description of Schizophrenia's Visual Hallucinations
One of the most informative experiences in psychotherapy I have had was working with a person with schizophrenia who possessed an unusual amount of insight and deep reservoirs of compassion and empathy. The following is based on her account of her experience with psychosis and managing social reality, using a picture to convey the imagery she experienced everyday. She began one session by telling me and her mother that the boundaries of an image of any object she sees is a b