hallucinatory polyopia

hallucinatory polyopia
   The term hallucinatory polyopia is indebted to the Greek words polus (much, many) and opsis (seeing). It was introduced in or shortly before 1928 by the German-American biological psychologist and philosopher Heinrich Klüver (1897-1979) to designate a type of *polyopia characterized by the perception of multiple identical hallucinatory images. Klüver uses the term hallucinatory polyopia in opposition to *'objective' polyopia and *imaginal polyopia.
   References
   Klüver, H. (1966). Mescal and Mechanisms ofhallucinations. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

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