Abstract
Confabulation is a technical term for a process typically ascribed to patients who have problems with their memory or their self awareness. We ask a patient why they have done something, and they tell us a narrative that sounds like a memory, but that we know to be false. So we say that the patient has confabulated. Their unconscious (but still diseased) mind has drawn together disparate stories in a desperate attempt to make their recent actions—and lives—make sense.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Memory in the Twenty-First Century |
| Subtitle of host publication | New Critical Perspectives from the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences |
| Editors | S. Groes |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 334-337 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781349566426 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2016 |