Brain fiction : self-deception and the riddle of confabulation / William Hirstein.

Includes information on amnesia, anosognosia, Anton's syndrome, autism, Capgras' syndrome, Cotard's syndrome, denial, emotion, Fregoli's syndrome, hypothalamus, Korsakoff's amnesia, Korsakoff's syndrome, limbic system, lying, memory, mirror image syndome, orbitofrontal...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hirstein, William
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005. ©2005
Series:	Philosophical psychopathology. Disorders in mind.
Subjects:	Deception. Self-deception. Mythomania. Psychophysiology. Delusions. Delirium. Denial (Psychology) MEDICAL > Psychiatry > General. PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > General. PSYCHOLOGY > Clinical Psychology. PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness. MEDICAL > Mental Health. Psychophysiology Delusions Delirium Deception Mythomania Self-deception Zelfbedrog. Bedrog. Cerebrale stoornissen.
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Table of Contents:

What is confabulation?
Philosophy and neuroscience
Confabulation and memory
Liars, sociopaths, and confabulators
Mind reading and misidentification
Unawareness and denial of illness
The two brains
Confabulation and knowledge
Self-deception
Our nature.

Brain fiction : self-deception and the riddle of confabulation / William Hirstein.

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