Department of Psychology and Behavioural Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Department of Psychology, University of Roehampton, London, UK.
Schizophr Bull. 2020 Dec 1;46(6):1367-1381. doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbaa113.
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.
丧亲者常报告有死者的感官和准感官体验(SED),SED 是否与悲痛并发症等病理有关,目前仍存在争议。对这些体验的研究已经在精神病学、心理学和人类学等多个学科中进行,但相互之间的交叉很少。本综述将这些研究领域结合在一起,借鉴了作为国际幻觉研究联合会(ICHR)的一部分成立的跨学科工作组的专业知识。它检查了 SED 的现象学、相关因素和影响的现有证据,包括文化的作用,并讨论了 SED 的主要理论以及这些现象与其他背景下异常体验的比较。该综述得出的结论是,这些体验绝大多数是良性的,应根据其传记、关系和社会文化背景来考虑。