Confabulation

Generosity is a wonderful personality trait to have when it comes to human interaction and connection, but when suffering is a possible outcome, it brings into question whether generosity relieves suffering or is there suffering in generosity? Evans and Singer both exhibit an argument with being generous. However, Evans showed suffering in being generous while Singer saw generosity in relieving suffering. Wilson on the other hand, supports the work of Evans and challenges the work of Singer’s,…

In order to understand the impact of a traumatic memory from the past on the present we must first understand what memory is. The act of remembering is something we begin to do subconsciously, it is an innate evolutionary feature adapted for survival. Memory is the mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experiences and we use it in our daily lives without realising.Fundamentally, memory represents a change in who we are. Our habits, our ideologies, our hopes and fears are all influenced…

and incorporate them into current life, so our self image to become frozen in time. The left side of our brain will then do everything it can to convince you nothing has changed and “maintain continuity of belief, using denial, rationalization, confabulation and other tricks to keep one’s mental model of the world intact” (Stevenson 1). It makes complete sense that a patient with this sort of brain damage would deny having a disease because they are only able to see themselves as how they were…

Keeping our Authenticity Freedom, authenticity, and the legitimacy of our memories are called to question when one tries to reconcile the complex notions brought forward by two philosophers. Sartre’s notions of authenticity and bad faith call to question the genuine motives behind our actions in the present, but what does that mean about our actions in the past? Can one recover from a past of bad faith, can one bad faith and emerge a changed person with the use of our memories in the work…

sort of a fantasy of what happen. There are actually fantasy-prone personalities, which are people who tend to mix their fantasies with memories of real events and construct new memories which seem real but are not. This process is called memory confabulation, and we all dolt to some degree.) Fantasy-prone people are in no sense crazy (Thomas). This goes to show that we’re not always right, and we can have misperceptions of things we…

Introduction Hypnosis can be a very controversial subject to talk about depending on how it is being used. According to the North Carolina Society of Clinical Hypnosis (2014), “Hypnosis is a natural state of selective, focused attention, and, even though it is 100% natural and normal, it remains one of the most fascinating phenomena of the human mind. Hypnosis, called by different cultures and times, has been recognized for thousands of years and used for many purposes.” (North Carolina…

Preface In the movie Memento, the viewer is faced with a number of questions about memory and the influences it has on a person’s satisfaction in life, their personality and brain function. These questions are especially relevant to the protagonist, Leonard Shelby who has Anterograde amnesia after damage to the hippocampus. The director, Christopher Nolan, accurately portrays the influences of hippocampal damage, similarly seen in Henry Molasis (H.M) Biological Biologically speaking,…

Categorical Approach vs. Dimensional Approach: A review of the current state of the DSM Dakshin De Silva 663160 Word Count:2250 The primary aim of psychiatric diagnosis is to provide information about the conditions from which psychological problems emerge. A formal diagnostic system like DSM–V provides concepts that can be diagnosed by applying a specific set of diagnostic rules (Kamphuis, J. H. & Noordhof, A.(2009). In our present stage of knowledge we are not able to classify…

The reminiscence of the previous day flashes in the brain, yet she knows nothing of the preceding day. Walking through an unfamiliar home and seeing all these photos of a familiar face amongst many unknown faces, this is what it is like to wake up as a person who has dementia. When people first started to recognise dementia they called it senility and then later on the name changed to dementia (“Types of Dementia”). Many people believe that they understand the definition of dementia, but the…