Amnesia for criminal offences

Taylor, Pamela Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3998-6095 and Kopelman, Michael D. 1984. Amnesia for criminal offences. Psychological Medicine 14 (03) , pp. 581-588. 10.1017/S003329170001518X

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Abstract

Nearly 10% of a sample of men charged with a variety of offences claimed amnesia for their offence. The amnesia occurred only among those who had committed violence and was most frequent following homicide. All the amnesics had a psychiatric disorder, four having a primary depressive illness and the remainder being almost equally divided between schizophrenia and alcohol abuse. None of the amnesias had any legal implications. The circumstances of the offences suggested a variety of mechanisms to account for the amnesia, including repression, dissociation and alcoholic black-outs. Psychological defence mechanisms were probably of some importance, even when alcohol was an important factor.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG)
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISSN:	0033-2917
Last Modified:	31 Oct 2022 10:35
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/85410

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