Textbook of abnormal psychology.

Dorcus, Roy M.; Shaffer, G. Wilson

doi:10.1037/13318-000

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B Psychogenic Loss Of Personal Identity and Fugue States1

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“…Our case shows that these "isolated" memories are organized around a striving, and that the striving is one which condenses and expresses symbolically a set of unacceptable strivings. Ribot's law 40 also appears now in a new light. Ribot witnessed such cases and yet maintained that the older memory trace is more stable and thus is lost later.…”

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Contributions of the Study of Pathological Memory Phenomena.

Rapaport¹

1950

Emotions and Memory (2nd Unaltered Ed.).

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The thesis that pathology of the organism is our best informant concerning the normal functions of the organism is generally accepted in medical science. Janet (1) applied it to the problem of memory when he wrote:''The psychologists in their descriptions admit of no other elementary phenomena of memory than conservation and reproduction. We think that they are wrong, and that disease decomposes and analyses memory better than psychology." (p. 102) 1 In this regard consider the fruitless experiments of Barnes (2) and Liljencrants (3), and those surveyed by Hunt (4), which attempted to investigate the memory functioning of psycho tics by methods of classical memory experimentation.

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