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Case Report — Hysterical Amnesia as an Alternative to Suicide

Published:1982-01 Issue:1 Volume:22 Page:68-72
ISSN:0025-8024
Container-title:Medicine, Science and the Law
language:en
Short-container-title:Med Sci Law

Author:

Gudjonsson Gisli H.¹,Haward Lionel R. C.²

Affiliation:

1. Lecturer in Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8AF

2. Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey

Abstract

A case of hysterical amnesia is presented together with psychometric, psychophysiological and behavioural data. In the early stages of the amnesia the patient appeared preoccupied with death which was stress-related as measured by the Dektor Psychological Stress Evaluator. Any attempt to reduce the amnesia made the patient become markedly suicidal. The findings are interpreted as supporting the hypothesis that in certain circumstances dissociative amnesia can be a substitute for suicide.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Law,Health Policy,Issues, ethics and legal aspects

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/002580248202200113

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