Antiquity Medieval Early modern Modern Iran India East-Asia 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] According to Deikman, and authors from a number of disciplines, psychotic experience need not be considered pathological, especially if consideration is given to the values and beliefs of the individual concerned.
[6][7] Deikman thought the mystical experience was brought about through a "deautomatization" or undoing of habitual psychological structures that organize, limit, select, and interpret perceptual stimuli.
[11] A closely related category is mystical experience with psychotic features, proposed by David Lukoff in 1985.
For example, researchers have found that people experiencing paranormal and mystical phenomena report many of the symptoms of panic attacks.