ABSTRACT
Autoscopy: The experience of seeing oneself and the image does not occur in external space eg they believe they see themselves in a mirror but they do not really. Schizophrenic patients may experience images of themselves in the form of a pseudohallucination. Sometimes this is called phantom mirror image. It may occur in organic conditions such as temporal lobe epilepsy or parietal lobe lesions. It is a visual perception and does not occur in other modalities. It can occur as a result of sensory deprivation. The opposite may occur – negative autoscopy – in which the patient looks in the mirror and sees no one there.
