Confabulation Oneiric

Confabulation and Oneiric Confabulations

Concept:

Confabulation (lat. confabulare - talk, tell, converse; lat. confabulo - empty talk, fables, inventions) is a pathological replacement of real events with fictitious ones. The term was introduced by Boney in 1825. K. are usually observed in mentally ill people. It was also observed in some intellectuals (for example, Leonardo da Vinci), which is not

Confabulation is pretending to forget real events. However, in the case of oneiric states, it is more likely to assume that events are unreal. Studies have shown that in 30-40% of cases, medical histories of oneiric confabulations during an attack of schizophrenia are also accompanied by delusions and hallucinations. And in more than a third of cases of attacks of oneiric con