Psychosensory Disorders

Psychosensory disorders are a group of mental disorders associated with a distortion of the perception of the surrounding world. These include:

1. Illusions are a distorted perception of really existing objects. For example, the patient sees objects increased or decreased in size.

2. Hallucinations are the perception of objects that do not actually exist. The patient may hear voices, see people or objects that are not actually there.

3. Derealization is the feeling that the environment is unreal, like a dream.

4. Depersonalization is a feeling of alienation from one’s own body and mental processes.

The causes of psychosensory disorders may be associated with mental illness (schizophrenia, depression), intoxication, and traumatic brain injury. For their treatment, drug therapy and psychotherapy are used.

Psychosensory disorder is a violation of the perception of reality, which manifests itself in a distorted perception of individual senses. For example, with psychosensory vision disorder, a person may perceive people, objects, colors and shapes differently than they really are.

Psychosensory (or psychomotor) disorder is defined as a reversible altered perception of the surrounding world, developing as a result of trauma, anesthesia, alcohol intoxication, illness, or states of mental stress. This is the name for such deviations, characterized by false perceptions of the surrounding space. This may be a distorted, disturbed or defective sensation and idea of ​​visual images (visual or optical aspect of perception), auditory, tactile, pain, temperature and other sensory sensations, spatial references (including the concept of movement), i.e. the formation of inadequate or incorrect ideas about the world from the outside. This condition is usually preceded by