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In assaying mental illness which appears during imprisonment, Maurice Bachet makes a distinction between transitory (usually auditory) hallucinations which occur as a result of chronic anxiety and exhaustion, and the persistent hallucinations observed in a psychiatric syndrome. The author looks at these phenomena as different steps in the disintegration of personality.