Author : William Hirstein
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,26 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262083386
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
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 30,31 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0198789688
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
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 34,89 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0199208913
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
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,6 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Delirium
ISBN : 9781848727243
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
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 22,52 MB
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780521713917
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 :
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 12,55 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198863985
Lisa Bortolotti argues that some irrational beliefs are epistemically innocent and deliver significant epistemic benefits that could not be easily attained otherwise. While the benefits of the irrational belief may not outweigh the costs, epistemic innocence helps to clarify the epistemic and psychological effects of irrational beliefs on agency.
Author : Lisa Bortolotti
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 19,50 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0199206163
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 : Peter McKenna
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 32,24 MB
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1107075440
The first comprehensive account of delusions, the forms they take clinically and the mysteries behind what causes them.
Author : J. Bogousslavsky
Publisher : Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 18,6 MB
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 3318064637
Neuropsychology has become a very important aspect for neurologists in clinical practice as well as in research. Being a specialized field in psychology, its long history is based on different historical developments in brain science and clinical neurology. In this volume, we want to show how present concepts of neuropsychology originated and were established by outlining the most important developments since the end of the 19th century. The articles of this book that cover topics such as aphasia, amnesia and dementia show a great multicultural influence due to an editorship and authorship that spans all developmental initiatives in Europe, Asia, and America. This book gives a better understanding of the development of higher brain function studies and is an interesting read for neurologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, neurosurgeons, historians, and anyone else interested in the history of neuropsychology.
Author : Niall Galbraith
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 12,67 MB
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1317754824
An aberrant belief is extreme or unusual in nature. In the most serious cases these beliefs cause emotional distress in those who hold them, and typify the core symptoms of psychological disorders. Each of the chapters in this volume seeks to examine the role that biases in reasoning can play in the formation of aberrant beliefs. The chapters consider several conjectures about the role of reasoning in aberrant belief, including the role of the jumping to conclusion bias in delusional beliefs, the probabilistic bias in paranormal beliefs, the role of danger confirming reasoning in phobias, and the controversial notion that people with schizophrenia do not succumb to specific forms of reasoning bias. There are also chapters evaluating different theoretical perspectives, and suggestions for future research. Aberrant Beliefs and Reasoning is the first volume presenting an overview of contemporary research in this growing subject area. It will be essential reading for academics and students in the fields of human reasoning, cognitive psychology and philosophy, and will also be of great interest to clinicians and psychiatrists.
