1. Schneider First Rank Symptoms.
First rank symptom | Definition | Example |
Auditory hallucinations | Auditory perceptions with no cause. These auditory hallucinations have to be of particular types: |
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hearing thoughts spoken aloud | "I hear my thoughts outside my head." | |
hearing voices referring to himself/herself made in the third person | "The first voice says 'He used that fork in an odd way' and then the second replies 'Yes, he did'". | |
auditory hallucinations in the form of a commentary | "They say 'He is sitting down now talking to the psychiatrist'". | |
Thought withdrawal, insertion and interruption | A person's thoughts are under control of an outside agency and can be removed, inserted (and felt to be alien to him/her) or interrupted by others. | "My thoughts are fine except when Michael Jackson stops them." |
Thought broadcasting | As the person is thinking everyone is thinking in unison with him/her. | "My thoughts filter out of my head and everyone can pick them up if they walk past." |
Somatic hallucinations | A hallucination involving the perception of a physical experience with the body | "I feel them crawling over me." |
Delusional perception | A true perception, to which a person attributes a false meaning. | A perfectly normal event such as the traffic lights turning red may be interpreted by the patient as meaning that Martians are about to land. |
Feelings or actions experienced as made or influenced by external agents | Where there is certainty that an action of the person or a feeling is caused not by themselves but by some others or other force. | "The CIA controlled my arm." |