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Young children, three to five or six years of age, have hallucinatory experiences different from older children. Adolescents have hallucinations more like adults but often also have childish hallucinatory experiences, as a sign of immaturity. Preadolescent children who are not psychotic, schizophrenic or epileptic, may have hallucinations of a benign nature. There are a number of studies of hallucinatory experiences in children from six years to puberty or early adolescence from public guidance clinics and psychiatric hospitals for children [2,5,6,8,10,17].
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Bender, L. (1970). The Maturation Process and Hallucinations in Children. In: Keup, W. (eds) Origin and Mechanisms of Hallucinations. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8645-6_8
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