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How is confabulation properly translated into Chinese?

Wikipedia doesn't have a corresponding entry.

The only dictionary I can find this in, LDC English-Chinese Wordlist, just lists 交谈/闲谈 - which is not nearly specific enough.

JSYK, Wikipedia defines confabulation as:

In psychology, confabulation (verb: confabulate) is a memory disturbance, defined as the production of fabricated, distorted or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world, without the conscious intention to deceive.[1]

Edit: the meaning I'm looking for this this:

(psychology) A fabricated memory believed to be true.

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虚构 or perhaps 虚构症 if you want to be clear that it is a diagnosis. 虚谈症 is another option.

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  • Yeah I saw that on baidu aswell but doesn't really seem to be the right word
    – Mou某
    Sep 21, 2014 at 15:45
  • Variations given: Confabulation is an important type of false memory / 虚构是虚假记忆的重要类型之一 | Phantastic confabulation / 幻想性虚谈症
    – user4452
    Sep 21, 2014 at 17:21
  • That is the best translation there is. i prefer no translation at all. George IV had an episode of -, when he believed he was at the battle of Waterloo. Sep 21, 2014 at 20:59
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Perhaps 虚构记忆 as in fabricated memory?

Or 错构症, 虚谈症 according to this (simplified Chinese).

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