A patient with schizophrenia told her psychologist that on two occasions she saw her mother sitting in a car outside of her house.Her mother lives in Europe, and there is no reason for the mother to be sitting in a car outside the patient's house.The psychologist believes the patient is experiencing

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The patient is experiencing hallucinations, specifically visual hallucinations of seeing her mother in a car outside her house. Delusions involve holding false beliefs, paranoia involves feeling threatened or persecuted, repressions involve the unconscious blocking of traumatic memories or impulses, and psychosis is a more general term for a loss of contact with reality.

A Patient with Schizophrenia Told Her Psychologist That on Two