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Mystical psychosis is a term coined by Arthur J. Deikman in the early 1970s to characterize first-person accounts of psychotic experiences^[1] that are strikingly similar to reports of mystical experiences.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

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^ Jackson, M., & Fulford, K.W.M., K. W. M.; Jackson, Mike (1997). "Spiritual experience and psychopathology". Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology. 4: 41–66. doi:10.1353/ppp.1997.0002. S2CID 28927599.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ Brett, C. (2003). "Psychotic and mystical states of being: Connections and distinctions". Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology. 9 (4): 321–341. doi:10.1353/ppp.2003.0053. S2CID 145696666.
^ Sandra Stahlman(1992)"The Relationship Between Schizophrenia & Mysticism: A Bibliographic Essay Archived 2009-05-05 at the Wayback Machine"
^ Tomás Agosin(1989)"Mysticism and Psychosis"