Predicting compliance with command hallucinations.

Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 70803.

Am J Psychiatry. 1990 Feb;147(2):245-7. doi: 10.1176/ajp.147.2.245.

Of 44 patients who experienced command hallucinations, those with hallucination-related delusions and hallucinatory voices they could identify were more likely to comply with the commands. The danger of the behaviors specified by the hallucinations did not appear to be a factor in compliance.