PMID: 9637895Jun 25, 1998Paper

Psychopathological study on "hallucination of soliloquy" in a case of schizophrenia

Seishin shinkeigaku zasshi = Psychiatria et neurologia Japonica
Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Satoshi Kato

Abstract

We present what appears to be the first reported case of schizophrenia with hallucinatory soliloquy. An appropriate name for this symptom might be "hallucination of soliloquy." A thirty-year-old man had been laboring under delusions of persecution and auditory hallucinations in the form of being blamed by others after changing his job at the age of twenty-eight. He consulted our hospital because of unintentional "soliloquy." He complained that he had been maltreated in his new work place and that this stress made him talk to himself. The contents of his "soliloquies" were nonsensical; for example, he would grumble about his colleagues or the plot of a teleplay that he had seen the previous day. During his "soliloquies" he had the vivid sensation of both speaking and hearing his own voice, but the episodes actually lacked vocalization. As a result of therapy, the patient's disorder gradually shifted from "soliloquy" to "silent soliloquy," then to "breathing hard," before finally disappearing. We are aware of a similar symptom, "delusion of soliloquy" (Y. Kasahara et al.), in which the patient believes that he unintentionally spoke to himself and that everyone learned his secrets through his soliloquy. In comparison, our "halluci...Continue Reading

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