Psychogenic Hearing Loss Combined with Dissociated Amnesia

Abstract

Psychogenic hearing loss is classified as one of functional hearing loss. Psychogenic hearing loss have psychogenic backgrounds.
We studied 2 cases which combined psychogenic hearing loss with dissociatied amnesia. The first case was a sixteen-year-old girl who was diagnosed as generalized amnesia in psychiatry department. The second case was a fifteen-year-old girl who already had organic hearing loss and the diagnose of psychogenic hearing loss was not easily established because of her organic hearing loss.
Patients who have psychogenic hearing loss often need psychotherapy.