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- noun Plural form of
amnesia .
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Examples
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Despite all the amnesias and power drains and fake parents, Zachary Quinto still makes you believe that Sylar is a bad enough dude to really mean it.
'Heroes' recap: The good, the bad, and the really bad | EW.com 2009
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They were delivering the “truths” little by little to the judicial authorities, containing veiled threats or simply they did not say a word claiming cynical amnesias.
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"Reason I asked," he said, "is that I've been told a spell in a rest cubicle -- same thing as a rest cubicle anyway, only it's used for therapy -- sometimes resolves amnesias."
Legacy James H. Schmitz 1946
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The connection between the infantile and the hysterical amnesias is really more than a mere play of wit.
Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex Sigmund Freud 1897
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Psychoanalysis has confirmed this suspicion in all cases of inversion accessible, and has decidedly changed their anamnesis by filling up the infantile amnesias.
Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex Sigmund Freud 1897
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May there not be an ultimate connection between the infantile and the hysterical amnesias?
Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex Sigmund Freud 1897
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Freud had learned that the amnesias of hypnosis and of hysteria were not absolute but relative and that in covering the lost memories, much more, of unexpected sort, was often found.
Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex Sigmund Freud 1897
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The Portuguese Faria insisted in 1819, practically as the first, that all those so-called magnetic influences, including the delusions, the amnesias after awaking, and the actions at a command, did not result from a magnetic power but from the imagination of the subject himself.
Psychotherapy Hugo M��nsterberg 1889
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Kopelman and his international peers debate the nature of these amnesias, often with mixed conclusions, and he acknowledges the significant element of hoax reporting.
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Kopelman and his international peers debate the nature of these amnesias, often with mixed conclusions, and he acknowledges the significant element of hoax reporting.
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