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Definition of Amnesias
1. amnesia [n] - See also: amnesia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amnesias
Literary usage of Amnesias
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1905)
"From a pathological standpoint, the amnesias may be classified as ... amnesias due
to alterations in the sensory sphere, in particular in the visual ..."
2. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1918)
"Of course it is mere guesswork to speculate on what may be the cause of the
amnesias which lie at the bottom of changes in the Self. Changes of blood-supply ..."
3. Papers on Psycho-analysis by Ernest Jones (1918)
"a matter that has perhaps been most fully investigated by Riklin.1 As I have
elsewhere pointed out,2 it is probable that all amnesias are due to defects in ..."
4. Multiple Personality: An Experimental Investigation Into the Nature of Human by Boris Sidis, Simon Philip Goodhart (1905)
"Elementary, however, as the aphasias are, they are still amnesias, but certainly
they stand in no relation to visceral sensibilities. In functional amnesias ..."
5. A General introduction to psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud (1920)
"Hysteria, however, shows a different picture, for it is usually characterized by
most grandiose amnesias. As a rule, in the analysis of each hysterical ..."
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