["Mediumistic psychoses". A case report]

Psychiatric diseases resulting from occult practices or spiritualist influences have long been known Henneberg in 1919 first described independent forms concelved as having a psychological genesis as "mediumistic psychoses". The continued importance of these disorders and the difficulties in their typological classification are illustrated by reference to a patient of our own who had pronounced auditory hallucinations. In classifying "mediumistic psychoses", it appears appropriate to give first consideration to atypical schizophrenic disorder.