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Psychiatry Symptoms and signs in psychiatry and classification 9d0aeedb

Patient wants to scratch for itching in his amputated limb is an example of

A
Illusion
B
Pseudohallucination
C
Phantom limb hallucination
D
Autoscopic hallucination
High-Yield Explanation
The phantom limb is the most common organic somatic hallucination of psychiatric origin. In this case the patient feels that they have a limb from which in fact they are not receiving any sensations either because it has been amputated or because the sensory pathways from it have been destroyed. Reference: Fish's Clinical Psychopathology, page 29.

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