Jack was found sleeping on a park bench. When awakened by a police officer, he could not remember who he was or where he lived.
Later, investigators discovered that Jack's wife had left him the night before after a violent fight in which he tried to attack her. Jack insists that he has no memories of the dispute with his wife or even of having been married. His loss of memory illustrates:
This kind of amnesia is a disorder that involves the incapacity a person has in order to remember very important information about themselves, such as name, address, marital status, if they have children or things like those.
To do a correct diagnosis it is always necessary to be based on history and one of the treatments that can be carried out is psychotherapy.
