[Discussion on the figure-description in the author's case with "acute alcoholic scenic complex hallucination"--against the criticism of HENRY Ey in his "Traité des hallucinations"].
1. The author formerly reported three cases with rare "scenic complex hallucinations" as acute alcoholic response. The patients experienced and stated such scenic hallucinations as incoherent dreams, if they were back to that specific circumstances; emotionally alive (anxiety) and reacted (counterattack, escape, confusion and so on) to that exact memories based on their experiences. 2. Attached is the figure that explains the detail correctly, which has been published in another article (Masuho KONUMA: On the Constitution of the Scenic Complex Hallucination in Acute Hallucinosis, CODEN: HDIZAB 37(3), 469-496, 1989 and so on). 3. HENRY EY criticized in "Traité des hallucinations" that the hallucination is only genuine in subjective experience of the patient and can not be drawn as a picture and that although the details might be described verbally, the image may be changed due to excessive explanation. He concluded that picture shown as FIG. I. is unacceptable. 4. The author has many publications on his own "dream records" and believes that subjective experiences in dreams could be expressed correctly in the form of picture. 5. The pictures show the mechanism of such hallucinations more correctly with the stories of the patients. I believe that these case reports are sufficient to let readers consent the possibilities of the mechanism.
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Hiroshima University.
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