Hallucinations and illusions : a study of the fallacies of perception / by Edmund Parish.

  • Parish, Edmund.
Date:
1897
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Credit: Hallucinations and illusions : a study of the fallacies of perception / by Edmund Parish. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    PREFACE. This book originated in an examination, upon which I was recently engaged, of the International Census of Waking Hallucinations in the Sane. While comparing for this purpose all the works accessible to me on hallucination and fallacious per- ception in general, I was struck by the fact that the writers, and especially the more modern writers, treat for the most part only of single aspects of the subject, such as fallacies of perception occurring under morbid conditions, or in dreams, throwing at most but a casual glance at related phenomena. The waking hallucina- tions of healthy persons are more or less completely ignored by them; and this neglect is natural enough, if we consider how meagre are all the accounts of such phenomena hitherto published. But now that the inquiry originated by the Inter- national Congress of Psychology at its meeting in Paris in 1889 has furnished ample and trustworthy data, it seems possible to bring these particular phenomena of fallacious perception into line with the rest. More- over, as this subject has already been dealt with at