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'Alternative facts': A psychiatrist’s guide to twisted relationships to truth

  • Written by Ronald W. Pies, Professor of Psychiatry, Lecturer on Bioethics & Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University; and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine, Tufts University
imageDoes your nose grow if it's a falsehood, not a lie?Thomas Hawk, CC BY-NC

The phrase “alternative facts” has recently made the news in a political context, but psychiatrists like me are already intimately acquainted with the concept – indeed, we hear various forms of alternate reality expressed almost every day.

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