The Mythomanias: The Nature of Deception and Self-deception

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Michael Myslobodsky
Psychology Press, 1997 - 414 strán (strany)

Recently, there has been a renewal of interest in the broad and loosely bounded range of phenomena called deception and self-deception. This volume addresses this interest shared by philosophers, social and clinical psychologists, and more recently, neuroscientists and cognitive scientists. Expert contributors provide timely, reliable, and insightful coverage of the normal range of errors in perception, memory, and behavior. They place these phenomena on a continuum with various syndromes and neuropsychiatric diseases where falsehood in perception, self-perception, cognition, and behaviors are a peculiar sign. Leading authorities examine the various forms of "mythomania," deception, and self-deception ranging from the mundane to the bizarre such as imposture, confabulations, minimization of symptomatology, denial, and anosognosia. Although the many diverse phenomena discussed here share a family resemblance, they are unlikely to have a common neurological machinery. In order to reach an explanation for these phenomena, a reliable pattern of lawful behavior must be delineated. It would then be possible to develop reasonable explanations based upon the underlying neurobiological processes that give rise to deficiencies designated as the mythomanias. The chapters herein begin to provide an outline of such a development. Taken as a whole, the collection is consistent with the emerging gospel indicating that neither the machinery of "nature" nor the forces of "nurture" taken alone are capable of explaining what makes cognition and behaviors aberrant.

 

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A View From the Rationalist
23
The Tricks and Traps of Perceptual Illusions
73
Wishful Thinking From a Pragmatic Hypothesis
105
Identifying the Origin of Mental Experience
133
How Can We Be Sure? Using Truth Criteria to
181
The SingleMindedness and Isolation of Dreams
203
Denial Anxiety and Information Processing
225
A Clinical View
245
The Case
277
Memories That Wish Themselves
307
Phantom Limb Phenomena and Their Neural
327
Rehabilitation
363
Author Index
393
Subject Index
409
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