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command hallucination, a condition in which individuals hear and sometimes obey voices that command them to perform certain acts. The hallucinations may influence them to engage in behavior that is dangerous to themselves or to others. command hallucination Psychiatry A hallucination in which a person perceives spoken orders or commands from an 'entity' within; CHs in a schizophrenic should trigger an ↑ in monitoring of Pts to prevent violent behavior
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| The patient told the nurse practitioner that he was hearing voices, which the nurse categorized as command hallucinations, telling him to harm the company's human resources director with whom he was having ongoing conflict over his job performance. It said: We do not say it was predictable that John Barrett would experience command hallucinations telling him to kill, but the risk of serious violence associated with deterioration in his mental state was known. |
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