The amnestic syndrome: Applying the Rorschach Inkblot method for differential diagnosis.

The amnestic syndrome: Applying the Rorschach Inkblot method for differential diagnosis. Neurocase. 2013 Aug 28; Authors: Czopp ST, Zeligman R, Kedem S, Hadar U Abstract Dissociative processes were investigated in a man diagnosed with focal retrograde amnesia (FRA) following a traumatic head injury without any anterograde memory deficit. Findings were derived from the Rorschach Inkblot method, which was administered together with other performance-based tests and a self-report inventory for evaluating dissociative proneness in personality functioning. A substantial set of behavioral and test response variables indicated dissociation proneness and the activation of dissociative mechanisms. This conception was supported a few months following the evaluation when the patient reported a total spontaneous recovery of the memory deficit. The interplay between neurological and functional factors in FRA is discussed with a view for creating an integrated model. PMID: 23985019 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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