A child who visited the emergency room with stress-related nonpsychotic hallucinations.

While it has long been recognized that certain hallucinations accompanying a high fever or epilepsy or appearing as a side effect of medication are common in childhood, it is only recently becoming clear that hallucinations may also occur as a feature of common psychiatric disorder without the unfavorable prognosis of childhood psychosis. The case described below illustrates some of the characteristic features of nonpsychotic hallucinations in childhood.