Posted on 02/04/2015 7:23:02 PM PST by jobim
Washington (AP) - There is a growing trend in the arena of psychological pathology called Conflation Disorder (CD) in which a person conflates one object, or incident, or person, with another.
An NBC anchorman, Brian Williams, recently confessed to conflating being on a helicopter in Iraq which was forced down by enemy fire, with riding a helicopter into that same area under perfectly safe conditions, sipping an Old Fashion and reading Voltaire. A Stanford University Professor, caught in a seedy motel with a coed, had actually conflated the voluptuous 19 year old blond with his 60 year old girthy wife, and the NoTell Motel with his Lake Shore Drive Condominium.
"It's more of a problem than people realize," said Psychologist Sigfreud James, with the Institute of the Mind at Dartmouth University. "What we until recently called a 'bald lie' is now known to stem from this peculiar disorder," James said. He also said that those suffering from CD are almost exclusively Ivy League graduates of high achievement. "This group has had the finest education in the land, and so we began to look for underlying causes of their mismemories," James explained. "Their high ethical standards would preclude simple lying."
"The intensity of their lives, their surpassing moral foundation, place great strain on their psyche, causing this confusion of the real with the imagined," James Said. "We recently examined a partner from a big asbestos litigation law firm recently, who had conflated his bank account with a client of his, an Alzheimer sufferer in his 90s," said James. "Certainly a well-respected attorney would be incapable of such subterfuge without some underlying patholgy," James concluded.
Al Franken did this when he conflated stealing an election with actually winning it.
Oh very good!
Is that the same nuns who would spend hours in trance-like (idle mind) states to 'connect' with God ?
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