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Its Treatment With Hypnosis

LT ARTHUR T. MEYERSON

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1966;14(5):509-515.

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Guttmacher and Weihofen¹ have pointed out that "the recollection of crime is often incomplete with a spotty amnesia which may clear up only partially under sodium pentothal or one of the other abreactive drugs." The author will present the cases of two women who murdered their children and subsequently suffered from a complete amnesia for the details of these crimes. In each case the woman had some vague recollection of having killed her child, but had forgotten all of the specific details of the homicide and the surrounding events. The cases are presented for the purpose of elucidating three factors.

1. The phenomenology and some of the causative factors of such crimes.

2. The phenomenology and dynamics of the concurrent amnesia.

3. The usefulness of hypnosis in elucidating factors 1 and 2 by a recovery of the forgotten events.

Case Histories

Patient A.—The patient is a . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
USNR, NEW YORK

From the Mt. Sinai Hospital Institute of Psychiatry, New York. Dr. Meyerson is now Brig Psychiatrist at the US Navy Third Naval District Brig, New York.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Nov 8, 1965.

Opinions or conclusions contained in this paper are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views or official policy of the United States Navy.

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