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Author: William Hirstein Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 9780262083386 Category : Deception Languages : en Pages : 316
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The phenomenon of confabulation--the tendency to construct plausible-sounding but false answers and believe that they are true--and what it can tell us about the human mind and human nature.
Author: William Hirstein Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 9780262083386 Category : Deception Languages : en Pages : 316
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The phenomenon of confabulation--the tendency to construct plausible-sounding but false answers and believe that they are true--and what it can tell us about the human mind and human nature.
Author: Armin Schnider Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198789688 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 321
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This new edition gives an up-to-date account of the causes, anatomical basis, and mechanisms of confabulations. It traces the history of the phenomenon of false memories, considers a range of clinical cases, and makes important recommendations for future study. It is essential for neurologists, psychiatrists, and cognitive neuroscientists.
Author: William Hirstein Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0199208913 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 310
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When people confabulate, they make an ill-grounded claim that they honestly believe is true, for example recalling an event from their childhood that never actually happened. This interdisciplinary book brings together some of the leading thinkers on confabulation in neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, & philosophy.
Author: Robyn Langdon Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 9781848727243 Category : Delirium Languages : en Pages : 0
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People with psychiatric and neurological illness sometimes say and think the most amazing things. They might believe they are dead; claim to see, despite being blind; or remember things that never happened. Historical demarcations between academic disciplines dictate that these are distinct clinical phenomena - delusions versus confabulations; and yet each involves some distortion of reality. This Special Issue brings together leading researchers from diverse research fields - memory, clinical neuropsychology, psychiatry, cognitive science and philosophy - to clarify theoretical conceptions of delusion and confabulation, evaluate similarities and differences, and examine underlying causal mechanisms.
Author: Michael Alan Taylor Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521713917 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 498
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In order to accurately describe and diagnose psychiatric illness, practitioners require in-depth knowledge of the signs and symptoms of behavioral disorders. Descriptive Psychopathology provides a broad review of the psychopathology of psychiatric illness, beyond the limitations of the DSM and ICD criteria. Beginning with a discussion of the background to psychiatric classification, the authors explore the problems and limitations of current diagnostic systems. The following chapters then present the principles of psychiatric examination and diagnosis, described with accompanying patient vignettes and summary tables, and related to different diagnostic concerns. A thought-provoking conclusion proposes a restructuring of psychiatric classification based on the psychopathology literature and its validating data. Written for psychiatry and neurology residents, as well as clinical psychologists, it is invaluable to anyone who accepts the responsibility for the care of patients with behavioral syndromes.
Author: Lisa Bortolotti Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0198863985 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 177
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In an ideal world, our beliefs would satisfy norms of truth and rationality, as well as foster the acquisition, retention, and use of other relevant information. In reality, we have limited cognitive capacities and are subject to motivational biases on an everyday basis. We may also experience impairments in perception, memory, learning, and reasoning in the course of our lives. Such limitations and impairments give rise to distorted memory beliefs, confabulated explanations, and beliefs that are elaborated delusional, motivated delusional, or optimistically biased. In this book, Lisa Bortolotti argues that some irrational beliefs qualify as epistemically innocent, where, in some contexts, the adoption, maintenance, or reporting of the beliefs delivers significant epistemic benefits that could not be easily attained otherwise. Epistemic innocence does not imply that the epistemic benefits of the irrational belief outweigh its epistemic costs, yet it clarifies the relationship between the epistemic and psychological effects of irrational beliefs on agency. It is misleading to assume that epistemic rationality and psychological adaptiveness always go hand-in-hand, but also that there is a straight-forward trade-off between them. Rather, epistemic irrationality can lead to psychological adaptiveness, which in turn can support the attainment of epistemic goals. Recognising the circumstances in which irrational beliefs enhance or restore epistemic performance informs our mutual interactions and enables us to take measures to reduce their irrationality without undermining the conditions for epistemic success.
Author: Lisa Bortolotti Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0199206163 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 318
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The book is an interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of delusions. It brings together recent work in philosophy of mind, cognitive psychology and psychiatry, offering a comprehensive review of the philosophical issues raised by the psychology of normal and abnormal cognition.
Author: Brian A. Sharpless Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190245867 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 401
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Unusual and Rare Psychological Disorders collects and synthesizes the scientific and clinical literatures for 21 lesser-known conditions.
Author: Matthew Broome Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 404
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'Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience' is a philosophical analysis of the study of psychpathology, considering how cognitive neuroscience has been applied in psychiatry. The text examines many neuroscientific methods, such as neuroimaging, and a variety of psychiatric disorders, including depression, and schizophrenia.
Author: William Hirstein
Author: William Hirstein
Author: Armin Schnider
Author: William Hirstein
Author: Robyn Langdon
Author: Michael Alan Taylor
Author: Lisa Bortolotti
Author: Lisa Bortolotti
Author: Brian A. Sharpless
Author: Matthew Broome
Author: Peter McKenna