Psychodynamic disturbances in patients with temporal lobe disorders
Ostow, M.
Transactions of the American Neurological Association 56(77th Meeting): 79-83
1952
ISSN/ISBN: 0065-9479 PMID: 13038798 Document Number: 3166
The report described the nature of psychic disorders accompanying organic disease of the temporal lobe (4 cases) and compared with psychic disorders of the non-organic type. Psychic disturbances were observed in the following forms: (1) as one of a sequence of components of a seizure; (2) as the sole component of a seizure; (3) episodically but not as a seizure; (4) as a constant disturbance. It is suggested that some kinds and distributions of temporal lobe disease may confer pathological over-activity upon one or more unconscious fantasies so as to preclude adequate repression, or they may interfere with the repressive mechanism itself.
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