Two Cases of Psychogenic Amnesia and the Significance of their Depressive States

Abstract

Psychogenic amnesia is known as psychogenic loss of personal identity, fugue, change of personal identity and retorograde amnesia. The cases, in which patients complained of a complete loss of memory for personal identity as well as whole life, have been reported and known as psychogenic total amnesia.
In this communication, the present author has reported two cases of psychogenic amnesia, of whom one is a 28-year-old male who complained of a complete loss of memorry for his previous life. The other is a 20-year-old female patient with Ganser' s syndrome due to dissociative reaction.
The author has focused upon thier depressive states in this discussion. In these cases, there were scarcely comfortable and agreeable families for them, moreover they were not enough mature to deal with emotinal conflicts of actual life. They had become depressive and lonsome, then these cases had to lose memory for thier personal identity.
There are a number of papers, where the above-mentione d depressive moods were discribed. Generaly speaking, psychogenic amnesia are widely accepted as hysterical dissociative reaction.
Amnesia can be recognized as a defence mechanism of the depressive states. Based on the own experience, the present author has concluded that psychogenic amnesia should be considered in a relationship to depression.