confabulation

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This isn’t the same as confabulation, or making a false memory, because what is recalled really happened.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

Dr. Carole Lieberman, a forensic psychiatrist and media personality in Beverly Hills, California, who has not personally examined Mr. Biden, agreed the president may be dealing with confabulation.

From Washington Times • Aug. 25, 2023

"So the question is: If there's something awry going on, was there hypnosis? Are they using confabulation?"

From Salon • Sep. 25, 2018

A long, narrow space without much of an architectural pedigree, it was, unlike some of the historic homes Mongiardino was handed that came with caveats, ripe for pure confabulation.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2016

But this episode was symptomatic: even his love for me involved extending the fabric of his psychosis and confabulation.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee