ReviewSchizophrenia bulletin2020
Sensory and Quasi-Sensory Experiences of the Deceased in Bereavement: An Interdisciplinary and Integrative Review.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Exploring Prolonged Grief Experiences of Ethnoracial Minoritized Caregivers: An Emic Perspective.Research in nursing & health · 2026Article
- Visual Hallucinations in Serotonergic Psychedelics and Lewy Body Diseases.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2025Review
- Hearing voices and other altered perceptual experiences across psychotic, mood, and anxiety disorders: from phenomenology and mechanisms to future directions.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025Review
- When perception meets grief: how the brain reconstructs person networks in response to absence.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- Content-based clustering of hallucinations across sensory modalities in a large online survey.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Felt presence and its determinants in young adults: results from three independent samples.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Varieties of felt presence? Three surveys of presence phenomena and their relations to psychopathology.Psychological medicine · 2023Article
- Social Deafferentation and the Relation Between Loneliness and Hallucinations.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2023Article
- When the Truth Is Out There: Counseling People Who Report Anomalous Experiences.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Bereaved people often report having sensory and quasi-sensory experiences of the deceased (SED), and there is an ongoing debate over whether SED are associated with pathology, such as grief complications. Research into these experiences has been conducted in various disciplines, including psychiatry, psychology, and anthropology, without much crossover. This review brings these areas of research together, drawing on the expertise of an interdisciplinary working group formed as part of the International Consortium for Hallucination Research (ICHR). It examines existing evidence on the phenomenology, associated factors, and impact of SED, including the role of culture, and discusses the main theories on SED and how these phenomena compare with unusual experiences in other contexts. The review concludes that the vast majority of these experiences are benign and that they should be considered in light of their biographical, relational, and sociocultural contexts.
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