The mythomanias : the nature of deception and self-deception / edited by Michael S. Myslobodsky.
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 c...
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1997.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; The Mythomanias: The Nature of Deceptionand Self-Deception; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contributors; 1. Living Behind a Facade: Notes on the Agenda; 2. Self-Deception: A View From the Rationalist Perspective; 3. Self-Knowledge and Self-Deception: Further Consideration; 4. The Tricks and Traps of Perceptual Illusions; 5. Wishful Thinking From a Pragmatic Hypothesis-Testing Perspective; 6. Identifying the Origin of Mental Experience; 7. How Can We Be Sure? Using Truth Criteria to Validate Memories; 8. The Single-Mindedness and Isolation of Dreams.
- 9. Denial, Anxiety, and Information Processing10. Imposture Syndromes: A Clinical View; 11. Neuropsychology of Self-Deception: The Case of Prosopagnosia; 12. Mnemopoesis: Memories That Wish Themselves to Be Recalled?; 13. Phantom Limb Phenomena and Their Neural Mechanism; 14. Awareness Salvaged by Curming: Rehabilitation by Deception in Audiovisual Neglect; Author Index; Subject Index.