Book contents
- Psychopathology of Rare and Unusual Syndromes
- Psychopathology of Rare and Unusual Syndromes
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Reviews
- Preface
- Section 1 Abnormalities of Belief and Judgement
- Section 2 Abnormalities of the Experience of Love
- Section 3 Abnormalities of Perception
- Section 4 Abnormalities of the Self
- Section 5 Abnormalities of Experience of the Body
- Section 6 Abnormalities of Memory Function
- Chapter 17 Confabulation
- Chapter 18 Ganser State
- Section 7 Abnormalities of Behaviour
- References
- Index
Chapter 17 - Confabulation
from Section 6 - Abnormalities of Memory Function
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 August 2021
- Psychopathology of Rare and Unusual Syndromes
- Psychopathology of Rare and Unusual Syndromes
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Reviews
- Preface
- Section 1 Abnormalities of Belief and Judgement
- Section 2 Abnormalities of the Experience of Love
- Section 3 Abnormalities of Perception
- Section 4 Abnormalities of the Self
- Section 5 Abnormalities of Experience of the Body
- Section 6 Abnormalities of Memory Function
- Chapter 17 Confabulation
- Chapter 18 Ganser State
- Section 7 Abnormalities of Behaviour
- References
- Index
Summary
Confabulation is a falsification of memory that occurs in clear consciousness and in association with an organic derived amnesia (Berlyne, 1972). It is probably best to consider it as a loose term that covers a range of qualitatively different memory disturbances (Oyebode, 2018). It covers such disparate phenomena as mild distortions of an actual memory, including intrusions, embellishments, elaborations, paraphrasing and high false-alarm rates on tests of anterograde amnesia. It can also refer to highly implausible, bizarre descriptions of false realities such as claiming to be a space traveller temporarily resident on planet Earth (Gilboa & Moscovitch, 2002). The term also has been used to include (1) memory confabulations; (2) confabulations about intentions and actions in subjects who had undergone commissurotomy resulting in split-brain phenomenon or in hemianosognosia or somatophrenia, where individuals deny obvious disability; (3) perceptual confabulations that occur in Anton syndrome, which is characterized by unawareness of blindness (Martín Juan et al., 2018); and (4) confabulations deriving from emotions (see Hirstein [2009] for a fuller review).
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- Psychopathology of Rare and Unusual Syndromes , pp. 193 - 199Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021