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LOSS OF TEMPORAL LOCALIZATION AS A MANIFESTATION OF DISTURBED SELF-AWARENESS

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.95.1.87

A case is reported in which a patient presenting a history of some kind of "convulsive" disorder was found to have a loss of the ability to localize past events in time. This defect was studied intensively and has been explained as due to disturbed self-awareness. This explanation was supported by other evidence of disturbed self-awareness, namely, experiences indicative of disorganization of the body-self.

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