Frontiers in Psychiatry • Vol 12
Tactile and Somatic Hallucinations in a Muslim Population of Psychotic Patients
October 2021 • A. S. M. Lim, Jan Dirk Blom
Background: Tactile and somatic hallucinations are distressing phenomena that have hardly been researched. The few studies that have been published focus on their occurrence in neurodegenerative disorders and substance use, and, surprisingly, not on schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Objective: To fill this gap in our knowledge, we sought to explore the phenomenological characteristics of tactile and somatic hallucinations in a group of psychotic Muslim patients. Since many Muslims attribute such experiences to jin…