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Harleen F. Quinzel

anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. he would be better advised to ... put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world. there, in the horrors of prisons, lunatic asylums and hospitals, in drab suburban pubs, in brothels and gambling-hells, in the salons of the elegant, the stock exchanges, socialist meetings, churches, revivalist gatherings and ecstatic sects, through love and hate, through the experience of passion in every form in his own body, he would reap richer stores of knowledge than text-books a foot thick could give him, and he will know how to doctor the sick with real knowledge of the human soul.

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Sometimes. Sometimes I think they’re real, but usually someone will say something that’ll make me think otherwise.

So with these hallucinations, you see them and hear them? Can you taste and smell them as well? How long would you say you’ve experienced them?

What happens when someone brings you out of the hallucination?

I believe I can taste and smell when I’m experiencing them, yes. I’ve had them since… Harvard, I believe. 

Usually nothing, and usually it’s some form of medication that brings me out of it… or maybe they just stop on their own. 

Since college…I’m sorry, but how old are you now?

I’m glad to hear that nothing happens…are you on medication to handle these hallucinations, Mr. Bateman? It is possible for them to dissipate on their own, by the way, but it might be helpful to you to have those hallucinations medically managed, if you’re not doing so already.

I’m twenty seven, twenty eight in October. 

I don’t recall ever consulting with a Doctor about these, no. Some of them aren’t really that dangerous, but others sometimes can be. At least I think they can be, it’s hard to tell. 

Thank you. You haven’t had these hallucinations for very long, then.

When you say medications, then…do you mean prescription drugs or recreational drugs? I’m asking because some recreational drugs can result in a variety of hallucinatory states.

Have you ever consulted with a doctor regarding anything other than physical ailments? You’d mentioned Xanax and Halcion prior to speaking with me. Was that from another psychiatrist for anxiety and insomnia?

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