Lauren Slater's Lying: Metaphorical Memoir and Pathological Pathography

Lauren Slater's Lying: Metaphorical Memoir and Pathological Pathography

Though Slater claims to have searched for Deborah, she never succeeded in contacting her, and Slater depicts her as missing in the conclusion of the book and muses about her mental health: Is she dented or damaged in some way? I don't know (250).\n She writes, [t]he neural mechanism that underg...

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Veröffentlicht in:Gender forum 2009-07 (26), p.N_A
1. Verfasser: Donaldson, Elizabeth J
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Bookstores
Deception
Frey, James (1969- )
Illnesses
Marketing
Mental health care
Metaphor
Nonfiction
Psychology
Spitzer, Robert L
Substance abuse treatment
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Zusammenfassung:Though Slater claims to have searched for Deborah, she never succeeded in contacting her, and Slater depicts her as missing in the conclusion of the book and muses about her mental health: Is she dented or damaged in some way? I don't know (250).\n She writes, [t]he neural mechanism that undergirds the lie is the same neural mechanism that help us make narrative. [...] all stories, even those journalists swear up and down are 'true,' are at least physiologically linked to deception (Lying 164).
ISSN:1613-1878