traumatic amnesia

In any case, genuine traumatic amnesia is extremely rare.

"Traumatic amnesia does that to a person," Kresh said dryly.

Betrayal-trauma: Traumatic amnesia as an adaptive response to childhood abuse.

"Offhand I would suggest your looking on about page 86 in re: post traumatic amnesia.

Traumatic amnesia, very possible in this situation.

An alternative explanation is that in both dreams and early childhood we experience a kind of traumatic amnesia: The experiences are too painful to remember.

"However, she should recover completely, though there is the distinct possibility that she will suffer traumatic amnesia.

"My initial findings tell me that you have what we call traumatic amnesia, as a result of the concussion you suffered.

The med-robots warned me that traumatic amnesia was a possibility and that the loss may be permanent."

Traumatic amnesia was no excuse.

The other boy, Sandy, he can't remember anything after they left the concert-doc says it's traumatic amnesia, and he probably won't ever get that memory back.

Traumatic amnesia.

Post traumatic amnesia typically resolves itself gradually, however it will leave a mild, but permanent deficit in the patient's memory .

He said Mr. Odierno, a landlord, had traumatic amnesia that prevented him from recalling the details of the night his wife died.

Those who doubt the existence of "traumatic amnesia" note that various manipulations can be used to implant false memories (sometimes called "pseudomemories").

The level of traumatic amnesia is quite remarkable," says Ross Baker, a Rutgers University political scientist who studies impeachment.

Typically, "repressed memory" is the term used to explain this sort of traumatic amnesia; the experience was so horrific that the adult cannot process what occurred years before.

Characters with memory disorders have helped to move literature and media along by allowing for either suspense to be created through retrograde or traumatic amnesia as seen in Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound.

Misconstruing retrieval failure as traumatic amnesia is not the same phenomenon as posttraumatic amnesia, which describes amnesia for the current elapsing time post-trauma, not amnesia for trauma from the past.

Traumatic amnesia, which allegedly involves the forgetting of specific traumatic events for long periods of time, is highly controversial, as is repression, the psychodynamic explanation of traumatic amnesia.

The defense says that his wife stabbed him first, that he is suffering from traumatic amnesia about what happened next, and that he lacked the intellect and decision-making ability to think ahead, let alone to plan a legal strategy.

Hilarious, poignant and gory, this modern fairy tale, which follows an aspiring nurse (Ms. Zellweger) with traumatic amnesia to Los Angeles to win the love of her favorite soap-opera character, is a contemporary "Wizard of Oz."

Williams defended the incident, using four medical experts to argue on his behalf that he was suffering post traumatic amnesia when the incident occurred, which he claims was the result of a high tackle by O'Neill just prior to the incident.

The consensus view, emerging from experimental psychologists in both America and Britain, is neatly summed up by Professor John Brown of Bristol University's Psychology Department: traumatic amnesia aside, he said, 'there is no reliable evidence that you can remember under hypnosis what you can't remember normally.'

He stated that subsequent retrieval of memories after traumatic amnesia is well documented in the literature, with documented examples following natural disasters and accidents, in combat soldiers, in victims of kidnapping, torture and concentration camp experiences, in victims of physical and sexual abuse, and in people who have committed murder.