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Disorientation for Age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

O. L. Zangwill
O. L. Zangwill*
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It has often been noticed that patients in amnesic states are prone to underestimate their age. In cases of Korsakov's psychosis this under-estimation may be very gross, and its extent appears to be determined, in part at least, by the duration of retrograde amnesia (Meggendorfer, 1928). A similar, if less extreme, under-estimation of age may also occur in the early stages of recovery after head-injury. In a recent study Weinstein and Kahn (1951) refer to this phenomenon as disorientation for age and adduce some striking examples. Thus one of their patients, a woman of over 70, insisted that she was 38. These authors do not, however, attempt a systematic analysis of this facet of disorientation.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 99 , Issue 417 , October 1953 , pp. 698 - 701
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1953 

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