Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A distortion of memory in which fantasy and objective experience are confused.
- noun An inability to recall the meanings of common words.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One's believing that he remembers things when he has never experienced them; false memory.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An inability to distinguish between real
memories anddreams orfantasies - noun An inability to
remember the meaning of common words
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (psychiatry) a disorder of memory in which dreams or fantasies are confused with reality
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Examples
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This "paramnesia" theory suggests that the original event was somehow linked to distress and was being suppressed from conscious recognition, no longer accessible to memory.
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During the coming week, artist Simon Pope and I will be giving a couple of talks on Walking Here and There - an art / science collaboration project that aims to investigate the interaction of place and memory in psychosis, and particularly reduplicative paramnesia, the delusional belief that a place exists in two or more locations simultaneously.
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I'll be talking about the science and neuropsychology of reduplicative paramnesia and we'll both be discussing how we've found trying to combine our disciplines to better understand space and location, as well as unusual states of mind.
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Reduplicative paramnesia is the delusional belief that a place exists in two or more locations simultaneously and has been the inspiration for the project where we will try and get participants to hold contrasting and contradictory memories of a past location in mind, while experiencing movement through a current space.
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Reduplicative paramnesia is the delusional belief that a place exists in two or more locations simultaneously and has been the inspiration for the project where we will try and get participants to hold contrasting and contradictory memories of a past location in mind, while experiencing movement through a current space.
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From a Wikipedia article on reduplicative paramnesia I've just created.
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Reduplicative paramnesia is the delusional belief that a place or location has been duplicated, existing in two or more places simultaneously, or that it has been 'relocated' to another site.
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From a Wikipedia article on reduplicative paramnesia I've just created.
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Reduplicative paramnesia is the delusional belief that a place or location has been duplicated, existing in two or more places simultaneously, or that it has been 'relocated' to another site.
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A consultant, however, suggested that the acute and late onset in an otherwise psychiatrically well person, the delusions of impostors (Capgras syndrome) and real and false neighborhoods (reduplicative paramnesia), and her difficulties finding her way about the unit (spatial disorientation) possibly indicated a nondominant parietal lobe stroke.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
bspbuco commented on the word paramnesia
So far the remarks miss the best thing to know about paramnesia: that it is essentially the same in common American and British use as Deja Vu, except that the latter includes a sense of dread ("Oh Pooh, It's Happening Again!"), while paramnesia might be the same experience of memory but without the dread - a quite relaxed acknowledgement that this may have happened before.
December 20, 2009
Jubjub commented on the word paramnesia
I always thought deja vu was more trippy rather than dreadful.
December 20, 2009