The confabulation of self

Joanna J. Bryson

doi:10.1057/9781137520586_41

The confabulation of self

Joanna J. Bryson

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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
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
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_41
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2016

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