Wilson, B. A., Kopelman, M., & Kapur, N. (2008). Prominent and persistent loss of past awareness in amnesia: Delusion, impaired consciousness or coping strategy? Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 18(5–6), 527–540. doi:10.1080/09602010802141889.

Not read: no lawful copy was reached on 2026-10-22 (see the status note). The summary is drawn from the abstract, which was read and agrees with it, and from what the paper is standardly cited for. Which of the three accounts the authors favour is not in the abstract; a reading should settle it first.

Why this is here

A26 cited it for Wearing’s diary entries and his response to evidence of his own earlier activity, and drew from it that “Wearing’s inability to remember being conscious is not evidence that he wasn’t conscious.” The case is CASE-137.