Acute confabulatory psychosis: A rare form of unipolar mania?

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Abstract
The concept of confabulation is defined in a Kraepelin-oriented manner, making it applicable to the fantastic false memories found in some rarer forms of functional psychotic illness. Kraepelin and Leonhard were preeminent in their concern with such clinical states; Leonhard''s confabulatory euphoria and confabulatory paraphrenia can be symptomatically and syndromally linked up with points of view on paranoid mania and confabulatory paraphrenia held by Kraepelin. An ideally typical case is also presented to highlight some of the difficulties involved in trying to distinquish mania from schizophrenia when the clinical picture is dominated by fantastic functional confabulations.

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