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Confabulation in psychotic disorders, dementia, court (Loftus).
Confabulation is an attempt to bridge memory gaps by constructing scenarios of what is most likely to have happened (possible, plausible, probable).
It is a theory about missing time. But the narcissist believes that the theory (confabulation) is real and true because he is the one who came up with it. Being infallible and omniscient, in his mind, he never makes mistakes.
Confabulation in narcissism:
Covers for narcissistically injurious dissociation (a challenge to omnipotence), trying to make sense of a chaotic, disjointed world.
Bridges gap between immutable internal and mutable external objects to restore object constancy and secure base.
Connects present with maternal object to past with real mother.
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