Word: amnesia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were told that their arm was resting on a table (hallucinated) and that they could feel no discomfort in it. They were asked to hold the weight as long as possible without dropping it or lowering their arm. Every effort was made to maximize their performance. Then post-hypnotic amnesia was induced and they were motivated (they were told such things as "it is vital that we get your true capacity") and put through the test again. Each subject was asked to better his previous performance under hypnosis (but it must be remembered that amnesia had been induced...
...severe fright" caused by the violence of his arrest, Podola had lost his memory, and so was unfit to plead to the charge of shooting a London cop. Last week, after a procession of experts had offered conflicting medical opinion on whether Podola was, in fact, suffering from "hysterical amnesia," the jury finally decided that he was fit to stand trial...
...patchy knowledge was in no way inconsistent with genuine loss of memory, and that only a man with a specialist's knowledge of rarely seen symptoms could fake Podola's act. Podola, he said, was "normally sane with the exception of memory loss," was suffering from "hysterical amnesia," a condition which can be characterized by "unconscious suppression" of particular memories "due to emotional causes." Might this unconscious suppression "clear up next week?" asked Mr. Justice Davies. "I think not, my lord," replied Dr. Ed wards. "That must depend, I think, on how the loss of memory or regaining...
...Podola's were a case of schizophrenia, said Edwards, he would have been 100% indifferent to everything and everybody. But the "Selective" fashion in which Podola could recall certain things from the past tended to confirm that he suffered only from hysterical amnesia. Podola, Edwards argued, was in the grip of what psychiatrists call la belle indifference-a "couldn't-care-less attitude about some things but not all things." As an example, Edwards pointed to the gesture-"absolutely incredible in a man with emotional awareness"-with which Podola had alluded to the possibility of hanging...
...week's end the Crown called Dr. Francis Busby, senior medical officer at Brixton Prison, who pronounced Podola's amnesia "definitely not genuine," and insisted that if Podola's memory really had vanished he could not have played chess and vingt-et-un with his guards without first being shown how. Podola, he said, had "deceived" Edwards and other doctors who held that he was not fit to be tried...