The immediate subjective world of the psychotic patient is presented in a striking personal account of a paranoid woman. The diary reveals hallucinatory processes that span auditory, visual tactile, and olfactory sensory modalities as well as the tremendous intensity of emotional turmoil that accompanies a psychotic breakdown.

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