REMARKS ON THE TRAUMATIC NEUROSES

HUGH T. PATRICK
1901 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)  
true examples of ambulatory epilepsy or somnambulism, and not, properly speaking, cases of localized amnesia. In my case the length of the period of amnesia, namely, seventeen years, is remarkable, as well as the sudden onset from a severe psychic shock with the sudden return of his original conscious memory. This seventeen years' lapse was in my mind not epileptic. Suggestion was tried upon him in all different ways, with no result in bringing out any details. In answer to Dr. Crothers, I
more » ... say that all memory of his previous occupations had been entirely lost.
doi:10.1001/jama.1901.62470500033002m fatcat:6vs55bxwmvblhjgfpau3dtd4hu