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Definition of Paramnesias
1. paramnesia [n] - See also: paramnesia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paramnesias
Literary usage of Paramnesias
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Amnesias and paramnesias Healy (William') & Healy (Mary Tenny). Pathological lying,
accusation and swindling; a study in forensic psychology. ..."
2. Thought and Things: A Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought, Or by James Mark Baldwin (1906)
"So there are not only illusions of recognition— as that of the well-known deja
vu, and certain of the paramnesias—but also alterations in the direction of ..."
3. A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine: Giving the Definition, Etymology and by Daniel Hack Tuke (1892)
"... memory is not present in a lesser degree, we find in consequence of the
indistinctness of the memory-pictures delusions of recollection (paramnesias). ..."
4. Text-book of Psychiatry: A Psychological Study of Insanity for Practitioners by Emanuel Mendel (1907)
"... which never took place, they confabulate without their confabulation reaching
the phantastic heights of paramnesias; it appears more like an excuse. ..."
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