Paramnesia

Question 1

Three forms of Reduplicative paramnesia

Answer 1

Place reduplication, chimeric assimilation, extravagant spatial localisation

Question 2

Place reduplication

Answer 2

The belief that two places with identical features exist simultaneously, but are geographically distant

Question 3

Chimeric assimilation

Answer 3

The belief that two places become combined, for example, a patient in the hospital believes that they are in their own home which has somehow transformed into the hospital

Question 4

Extravagant spatial localisation

Answer 4

Belief that their current location is actually somewhere else, usually a location familiar to them

Question 5

Retrospective falsification

Answer 5

The process of distorting a memory

Question 6

Cryptomnesia

Answer 6

This is characterised by having a thought without realising you have had the thought before ( for example, some plagiarists claim they are unaware that they were recounting other people’s work)

Question 7

Paraschemazia

Answer 7

Paraschemazia is described as a feeling that parts of the body are distorted or twisted or that they are separated from the rest of the body. It can occur in association with hallucinagenic use, with an epileptic aura, and with migrane.