Book contents
- Psychopathology of Rare and Unusual Syndromes
- Psychopathology of Rare and Unusual Syndromes
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Reviews
- Preface
- Section 1 Abnormalities of Belief and Judgement
- Section 2 Abnormalities of the Experience of Love
- Section 3 Abnormalities of Perception
- Chapter 6 Charles Bonnet Syndrome
- Chapter 7 Musical Hallucinosis
- Chapter 8 Ekbom Syndrome
- Chapter 9 Vulvodynia and Penoscrotodynia
- Chapter 10 Olfactory Reference Syndrome
- Chapter 11 Cross-Modal Perceptual Syndrome (Synaesthesia)
- Section 4 Abnormalities of the Self
- Section 5 Abnormalities of Experience of the Body
- Section 6 Abnormalities of Memory Function
- Section 7 Abnormalities of Behaviour
- References
- Index
Chapter 11 - Cross-Modal Perceptual Syndrome (Synaesthesia)
from Section 3 - Abnormalities of Perception
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 August 2021
- Psychopathology of Rare and Unusual Syndromes
- Psychopathology of Rare and Unusual Syndromes
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Reviews
- Preface
- Section 1 Abnormalities of Belief and Judgement
- Section 2 Abnormalities of the Experience of Love
- Section 3 Abnormalities of Perception
- Chapter 6 Charles Bonnet Syndrome
- Chapter 7 Musical Hallucinosis
- Chapter 8 Ekbom Syndrome
- Chapter 9 Vulvodynia and Penoscrotodynia
- Chapter 10 Olfactory Reference Syndrome
- Chapter 11 Cross-Modal Perceptual Syndrome (Synaesthesia)
- Section 4 Abnormalities of the Self
- Section 5 Abnormalities of Experience of the Body
- Section 6 Abnormalities of Memory Function
- Section 7 Abnormalities of Behaviour
- References
- Index
Summary
In the preceding chapters, I focused on the psychopathology of perception or of sensation. These pathologies often, if not invariably, are recognized as indicating underlying disorders or diseases. I now turn to synaesthesia, a condition that is not usually thought of as a disorder or disease but rather as a variant of normal experience. Put simply, it is the merging of the senses, in which a stimulus in one sensory modality both evokes a normal perception, as expected, in the same modality and an anomalous perception in another modality. In other words, there is cross-modal perception.
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- Psychopathology of Rare and Unusual Syndromes , pp. 120 - 130Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021