Hallucination In Hong Kong
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Hallucination In Hong Kong
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Author : Rohan Quine
language : en
Publisher: EC1 Digital
Release Date : 2014-01-01
Hallucination In Hong Kong written by Rohan Quine and has been published by EC1 Digital this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-01 with Fiction categories.
In Hallucination in Hong Kong by Rohan Quine, sliding from joy to nightmare and back, a plane-flight frames a journey into Jaymi’s and Angel’s polarised identities and perceptions, where past and present merge in an obsessive fantasy of love, death, horror and apocalyptic beauty. At take-off, warmed by the presence of his friend Angel beside him, Jaymi starts to doze, and enters a fog of horror in seeming to remember that their destination lies in the past, not ahead ... forcing him to explore those hellish possible events lying beneath the surface of our present and future, always ready to break through into reality. A Distinguished Favorite in the NYC Big Book Award 2021. As their plane takes off, Jaymi is warmed by the presence of his beloved friend Angel beside him. They are bound for Hong Kong, to perform a grand concert of unearthly music from a stage set high on the Peak. Jaymi starts to doze ... and enters a fog of horror in seeming to remember that this concert lies in their distant past, not their imminent future: it happened nine years ago, and straight after that triumphant occasion there occurred unexpected disaster and the permanent catatonia of Angel. Those terrible events were rendered all the more poignant by the idyllic chapter they had experienced upon first meeting and falling in love, which he now recalls in great detail. In reality (it would seem), Jaymi is on this flight alone, on a mission to put a compassionate end to Angel’s life, in view of his continued catatonia. And in an atmosphere of escalating nightmare and disjunction, incongruously set against the beauty of night-time Hong Kong as seen from the Peak and the Midlevels, this grim mission of euthanasia is accomplished – perhaps. That nightmare atmosphere is magnified by the obsessive flicker of Jaymi’s mind through complex permutations of his own possible guilt at betraying Angel, and the latter’s possible knowledge of this guilt ... because hadn’t there actually been a mirror on the ceiling above the bench where Angel lay supine years ago, unnoticed by Jaymi at the time but in fact revealing to Angel certain things about Jaymi’s movements that he hadn’t known Angel could see? Sliding from joy to nightmare, then back to a joy stained by the flavour of vanishing nightmare, Hallucination in Hong Kong explores those hellish possible events lying beneath the surface of our present and future, always ready to break through into reality if they become so inclined. In this journey, it conjures up from Jaymi’s and Angel’s polarised identities and perceptions an obsessive fantasy of dark androgyny, ironic horror and apocalyptic beauty. Rohan Quine, Hallucination in Hong Kong, literary fiction, magical realism, dark fantasy, horror, gay, Hong Kong, catatonia, plane flight, The Peak, concert, imagination, transgender, contemporary
A Phenomenological Study Of Auditory Verbal Hallucination In Psychosis
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Author : 鄭泰然
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
A Phenomenological Study Of Auditory Verbal Hallucination In Psychosis written by 鄭泰然 and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Hallucinations and illusions categories.
Altered Action Awareness In Schizophrenia Patients With Passivity Experiences And Auditory Hallucinations
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Author : Chi-Sing Law
language : en
Publisher: Open Dissertation Press
Release Date : 2017-01-26
Altered Action Awareness In Schizophrenia Patients With Passivity Experiences And Auditory Hallucinations written by Chi-Sing Law and has been published by Open Dissertation Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-26 with Medical categories.
This dissertation, "Altered Action Awareness in Schizophrenia Patients With Passivity Experiences and Auditory Hallucinations" by Chi-sing, Law, 羅志昇, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: The deficit in motor self-monitoring is suggested to explain the passivity experiences and even auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH). It is proposed that the loss of the sense of agency in these strange experiences originates from abnormalities in the motor control system. When executing an action, the central nervous system sends out the corresponding motor commands for suitable muscular contractions. An efference copy (EC) (a copy of the motor command) will be made, for computing a prediction of motor consequences. Discrepancies between the predicted state and the actual state imply alien interruption, generating possibly the judgments about alien agency's control over the movement. An abnormal occurrence of this discrepancy is thought to be underlying the passivity experiences or even AVH. Ample evidences have shown that schizophrenia patients performed worse in motor related tasks that requires access to the EC and the predicted state. Patients with passivity experiences or AVH (patients with relevant symptoms) demonstrated even greater anomaly than those without. However, most of the tasks adopted involved complex cognitive processes or required verbal report of experiences. Patients with passivity experiences have poor general cognitive functions and may have an eccentric criterion in making judgment, thus affecting the tasks' validities. The current study proposes two paradigms that tried to investigate the abnormalities of EC and predicted state in the motor control system of the patients with relevant symptoms. The two paradigms aimed to measure the direct influences of EC and predicted state in motor performances and are designed to eliminate as much cognitive processes involvement as possible. In both paradigms, three groups were recruited: (a) schizophrenia patients with clinically significant AVH or passivity experiences; (b) schizophrenia patients without the relevant symptoms and (c) normal controls. Both paradigms focused on the influences of the EC and predicted state of one action on another separate action. The first paradigm focused on the influence of them on a subsequent action and the second paradigm focused on the influence of them on a simultaneous action. The first paradigm required subjects to replicating their previous voluntary movement, which should be more accurate than when replicating a passive movement. The second paradigm required subjects to unload an object on one hand with the other hand. This voluntary action should stabilize the loaded hand when unloading objects comparing to passive unloading, due to an anticipation of movements. In both paradigms, the performances of the patients with relevant symptoms significantly deviated from the control groups. In the first paradigm, the patients with relevant symptoms replicate their action much worse than controls; in the second paradigm, the patients with relevant symptoms have their hands fluctuated significantly stronger. Unlike the patients with relevant symptoms, both the control groups demonstrated utilization of EC and the predicted states. The findings strongly suggest that deficit in motor self-monitoring in the predictors process associated strong with passivity experiences and AVH. The link between motor performances and the experience of AH should be highlighted. Subjects: Auditory hallucinations Motor ability Sch
Visual Hallucinations In Parkinson S Disease
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Author : 姚乃琳
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Visual Hallucinations In Parkinson S Disease written by 姚乃琳 and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Parkinson's disease categories.
A Phenomenological Study Of Auditory Verbal Hallucination In Psychosis
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Author : 鄭泰然
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-01-26
A Phenomenological Study Of Auditory Verbal Hallucination In Psychosis written by 鄭泰然 and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-26 with categories.
This dissertation, "A Phenomenological Study of Auditory Verbal Hallucination in Psychosis" by 鄭泰然, Tai-yin, Cheng, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Introduction: Patients of schizophrenia experienced a cluster of symptoms known as psychosis, which were concurrent phenomena presented across multiple psychopathological dimensions, among which hallucination was one of the principal features. Auditory verbal hallucination (AVH) was the most common among other modalities (i.e. visual, olfactory, gustatory and tactile) of hallucinations and was said to occur when audible voices were heard without presence of corresponding stimuli. There were two main neurocognitive hypotheses on the underlying mechanism of the occurrence of AVH, namely the inner speech hypothesis and the top down processing hypothesis. Existing descriptive psychopathology studies were not guided by any theoretical frameworks. This study was the groundwork to examine experiences of AVH as described by patients with psychosis and other psychiatric conditions based on these two major hypotheses. Method: This study was a retrospective case series. Comprehensive searches of AVH cases were done on biomedicine and psychology databases, in which case reports, case studies and studies with detailed descriptions of phenomenology of AVH with various aetiologies, a total of twenty cases, were selected. Four in-depth qualitative interviews were also conducted with psychosis patients for in-depth understandings of their AVH phenomena experiences. Result: Three specific features from the two neurocognitive hypotheses were identified. (1) Form of address, (2) linguistic complexity, and (3) command hallucinations were likely interpreted by inner speech hypothesis; whereas (1) single theme and repetitive contents, (2) relations with past experience/knowledge/perceptual expectations, and (3) congruent moods were likely interpreted by top down processing bias hypothesis. Discussion: This study has categorized AVH phenomena from twenty literature cases and four in-depth qualitative interview cases by specific features of the two mainstream hypotheses; and commented on each of the specific features on their relevancies to the two mainstream hypotheses. Conceptualisation of underlying neurocognitive mechanisms could made taxonomy easier, and as a result benefit clinical staging, better prediction of prognosis and better communications with patients and their families. DOI: 10.5353/th_b5087709 Subjects: Hallucinations and illusions Psychoses
Hong Kong
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Author : Ackbar Abbas
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 1997-01-01
Hong Kong written by Ackbar Abbas and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-01 with Hong Kong (China) categories.
This is a rich and thought-provoking book which tries to capture a complex historical, cultural, and political postcolonial situation in the unique metropolis of contemporary Hong Kong. MAYFAIR YANG - University of California, Santa Barbara. Hong Kong
The Imagination Thief
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Author : Rohan Quine
language : en
Publisher: EC1 Digital and the Firsty Group
Release Date : 2013-01-01
The Imagination Thief written by Rohan Quine and has been published by EC1 Digital and the Firsty Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-01 with Fiction categories.
The Imagination Thief by Rohan Quine is about a web of secrets, triggered by the stealing and copying of people’s imaginations and memories. It’s about the magic that can be conjured up by images of people, in imagination or on film; the split between beauty and happiness in the world; and the allure of various kinds of power. A Distinguished Favorite in the NYC Big Book Award 2021, it celebrates some of the most extreme possibilities of human imagination, personality and language, exploring the darkest and brightest flavours of beauty living in our minds. Alone in his skyscraper office one night, Jaymi undergoes a transformation that will change his life: he acquires the power to see into others’ minds, and then to control and project their thoughts. Realising the potential of this gift, he hypnotises a media mogul into agreeing to broadcast an electrifying extravaganza of sound and vision emanating from Jaymi, the like of which has never been witnessed before, that will captivate millions. However, one of the mogul’s underlings has more subversive plans for milking Jaymi’s talent, involving the theft of others’ imaginations and intimate memories for commercial gain. The broadcasting of his visions plunges Jaymi and his best friend Alaia on a journey into the underbelly of Asbury Park – a seaside town once full of life but now half-forgotten. The town’s entire oceanfront is now almost a ghost town: ruled by gangsters and drug dealers, headed by Lucan, it is populated by lost souls and the beautiful who have fallen on hard times. Blackmailed into thieving the most private and primal memories and experiences from these people’s imaginations, Jaymi discovers a web of secrets and provocations simmering beneath the surface of the town, about to explode. When a waxwork of Lucan’s decapitated head is anonymously planted in his own bar, fear bubbles up, as everyone becomes a suspect in this unforgivable challenge to Lucan’s dominance. Then when another provocative waxwork appears – a naked full-body modelling of Lucan’s beautiful but tortured lover, Angel – Jaymi knows he must use his own gift to discover the perpetrator before Lucan does. Delving into and celebrating the most beautiful and extreme possibilities of human imagination, personality and love, The Imagination Thief is literary fiction, with a touch of magical realism and a dusting of horror. It explores the universal human predicaments of power, beauty, happiness, hopelessness, good and evil. Keywords: literary fiction, magical realism, dark fantasy, horror, gay, Asbury Park, psychic, New York, broadcast, imagination, transgender, contemporary, enhanced ebook
Hallucinations And Illusions
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Author : Edmund Parish
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
Hallucinations And Illusions written by Edmund Parish and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Hallucinations and illusions categories.
Hallucination
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Author : Fiona Macpherson
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2024-03-12
Hallucination written by Fiona Macpherson and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-12 with Philosophy categories.
Scientific and philosophical perspectives on hallucination: essays that draw on empirical evidence from psychology, neuroscience, and cutting-edge philosophical theory. Reflection on the nature of hallucination has relevance for many traditional philosophical debates concerning the nature of the mind, perception, and our knowledge of the world. In recent years, neuroimaging techniques and scientific findings on the nature of hallucination, combined with interest in new philosophical theories of perception such as disjunctivism, have brought the topic of hallucination once more to the forefront of philosophical thinking. Scientific evidence from psychology, neuroscience, and psychiatry sheds light on the functional role and physiology of actual hallucinations; some disjunctivist theories offer a radically new and different philosophical conception of hallucination. This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on the nature of hallucination, offering essays by both scientists and philosophers. Contributors first consider topics from psychology and neuroscience, including neurobiological mechanisms of hallucination and the nature and phenomenology of auditory-verbal hallucinations. Philosophical discussions follow, with contributors first considering disjunctivism and then, more generally, the relation between hallucination and the nature of experience. Contributors István Aranyosi, Richard P. Bentall, Paul Coates, Fabian Dorsch, Katalin Farkas, Charles Fernyhough, Dominic H. ffytche, Benj Hellie, Matthew Kennedy, Fiona Macpherson, Ksenija Maravic da Silva, Peter Naish, Simon McCarthy-Jones, Matthew Nudds, Costas Pagondiotis, Ian Phillips, Dimitris Platchias, Howard Robinson, Susanna Schellenberg, Filippo Varese
Hallucinations
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Author : Sofia Alvarez
language : en
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Release Date : 2013
Hallucinations written by Sofia Alvarez and has been published by Nova Science Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Cognition disorders categories.
In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the causes, management and prognosis of hallucinations. Topics discussed include the role of metacognitive dispositions for psychological models of hallucinations; visual hallucinations in Parkinsonian syndromes; the causal mechanisms which underlie lucid hallucinations; the effect of group cognitive behaviour therapy for patients with auditory hallucinations in psychotic disorders; current neurocognitive theories and management of auditory verbal hallucination; and a summary of the concept of hallucination and its clinical implications in daily clinical practice.
