Delusion and Hallucinations
Both delusion and hallucinations frequently coexist and one may bring either to the surface or judicious inquiry for the one or the other. Many patients in fact most neurotic complain of loss of memory. A little inquiry immediately reveals the emptiness of the complaint. Such patients suffer from want of attention (there are too self-centered): therefore they do not remember. Memory consists of attention (association), retention and spontaneous recollection. In true memory defect there is no retention, no power of association of ideas in order that they be retained and obviously no (Read on …)