This paper describes the case of an elderly man who battered his wife to death, and presented with amnesia about the actual attack. Psychological testing revealed significant impairment in recognition of faces and names which was specifically related to the gender of the material presented. No organic basis was found for the deficit suggesting that repressive and/or dissociative mechanisms can have powerful effects upon recognition memory.
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