HALLUCINATION PSYCHONOME

Also referred to ashallucination normaleor 'normal hallucination'. The French termhallucination psychonomeis indebted to the Greek wordspsuchè(life breath, spirit, soul, mind), andnomos(law). It translates loosely as 'hallucination in accordance with the mind's laws'. It was introduced in or shortly before 1930 by the French psychiatrist Pierre Quercy to denote a hallucination that can be evoked in any individual susceptible to suggestion. As Quercy's compatriot Henri Ey (1900-1977) notes, the notion ofhallucination psychonomewould not seem to have a bearing on hallucinations proper, but rather on *illusions (more specifically, on 'normal illusion-ary phenomena').

Ey, H. (1973).Traité des hallucinations. Tomes 1 et 2. Paris: Masson et Cie., Éditeurs.

Quercy, P. (1930).L'hallucination. Tome2. Études cliniques. Paris: Librairie Félix Alcan.