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Lilliputian Hallucinations

Eight Illustrative Case Histories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Samson Goldin
Samson Goldin*
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Runwell Hospital
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Raoul Leroy was the first alienist to take a scientific interest in diminutive hallucinations which he labelled “Lilliputian” (1909) and they can best be described in his own words (1922).

“It is the vision of small people, men and women of minute and slightly variable height; either above or accompanied by small animals or small objects all relatively proportionate in size…. These hallucinations are mobile, coloured, generally multiple … All this little world, clothed generally in bright colours, walks, runs, plays and works in relief and perspective.”

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Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 101 , Issue 424 , July 1955 , pp. 569 - 576
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1955 

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