Confabulations Ecmnestic

Confabulation is a shift in the emphasis of our memory towards very pleasant or attractive events (positive confabulator) or very unpleasant events that need to be forgotten (negative confabulator). An example of constructive confabulatory activity - randomly chosen stories are typical examples of confabulatory stories. The defect lies in the fact that an arbitrary choice of pathological confabular interpretation of past events occurs. This may indicate that the events of that time were deeply repressed from consciousness. Other facts indicate this: the protective mechanisms mentioned earlier, the complete rejection of stories about a real event (war novels and detective stories in criminal hospitals serve as prototypes) indicate the destruction of normal