Brain Fiction: Self-Deception and the Riddle of Confabulation (Philosophical Psychopathology) by William Hirstein

Brain Fiction: Self-Deception and the Riddle of Confabulation (Philosophical Psychopathology)

William Hirstein

289 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction psychology science informative reflective medium-paced
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Some neurological patients exhibit a striking tendency to confabulate--to construct false answers to a question while genuinely believing that they are telling the truth. A stroke victim, for example, will describe in detail a conference he attend...

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