AMDP'S DEFINITION OF ILLUSIONS

   The 1982 Manual for the Assessment and Documentation of Psychopathology (AMDP) defines illusions as follows: "Distortion or misinterpretation of a real perception. Falsified actual perceptions; the presence of a real object (percept) differentiates an illusion from a hallucination."

   References

   Guy, W., Ban, T.A., eds. (1982). The AMDP- system: Manual for the assessment and documentation of Psychopathology. Berlin: Springer.