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Mr X – A Case of Amnesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Yair Domb  and
Katja Beaman
Yair Domb*
Affiliation:
Chace Village, Chase Farm Hospital, The Ridgeway, Enfield EN2
Katja Beaman
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, St Thomas' Hospital, London SE1 7EH
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

A case of psychogenic amnesia in a 58-year-old man supports the view that complete loss of personal identity can follow a traumatic experience. He regained his memory by being helped to develop an affective link with the painful event.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 158 , Issue 3 , March 1991 , pp. 423 - 425
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991 

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