Patient wants to scratch for itching in his amputated limb is an example of: (A) Illusion, (B) Pseudohallucination, (C) Phantom limb hallucination, (D) Autoscopic hallucination
Answer is C. The phantom limb is the most common organic somatic hallucination of psychiatric origin. In this case the patient feels that they have a limb from which in fact they are not receiving any sensations either because it has been amputated or because the sensory pathways from it have been destroyed. Reference: Fish's Clinical Psychopathology, page 29.