Article

Ivanov Roman S. (2015). Application of a polygraph detector in diagnosing symptom simulation of the biographical amnesia. National Psychological Journal. 4, 79-90.

Abstract

The paper considers the first case of using polygraph («lie detector») in the history of Russia for diagnosing possible simulation of auto amnesia symptoms (biographical amnesia).

In recent years, the number of cases of biographical amnesia have increased greatly. Today there are several scientific concepts to explain the amnesia of biographical information using a number of approaches. Some psychiatrists believe that the existence of specified disorder is false. The appeal of scientists to the method of psychophysiological research using the polygraph to diagnose possible simulation of auto amnesia is due to the fact that the object of such research is human memory, i.e. mental process of influenced by different types of amnesia.

This paper describes basic provisions of carrying out technology research for diagnosing possible cases of simulating symptoms of biographical amnesia, highlighting the progress in detail, conditions and results of the performed experiment that showed that the functional status of the patient was unsuitable for using the polygraph. Therefore, to reach a conclusion about the simulation of the symptoms of the disease is not possible.

The most probable causes of this result deal with the assumption about patient taking therapeutically potent drugs that produce a pronounced anti-anxiety effect. Reexamination after the expiration of pharmacological drug term is recommended.

The paper is of practical interest to psychiatrists, experts in the field of medical and clinical psychology, polygraph practitioners.

Received: 03/09/2015
Accepted: 04/24/2015
Pages: 79-90
DOI: 10.11621/npj.2015.0408

PDF: Download

Keywords: psychophysiological investigation using a polygraph; auto amnesia; biographical amnesia; psychotherapy; clinical psychology; possible simulation of symptoms;

Available Online 31.12.2015

a:2:{s:4:"TEXT";s:6423:"
 <img width="500" src="/images/articles/4-20-2015-8-1.gif" height="234"> 
 


Fig. 1. No significant physiological responses to stimulus of the control group questionnaire.


 <img width="500" src="/images/articles/4-20-2015-8-2.gif" height="238"> 


Fig. 2. No significant physiological responses to stimulus of the control group questionnaire.


 <img width="500" src="/images/articles/4-20-2015-8-3.gif" height="203"> 


Fig. 3. No significant physiological responses to stimulus of the control group questionnaire.

<h2>References:</h2>

Belov, E.I. (2006) Fundamentals of neuropharmacology: manual for university students. Moscow, Aspekt Press, 176.


Ben-Shakhar, G. (2012) Current research and potential applications of the concealed information test: an overview. Frontiersin Psychology. Cognitive Science. Vol. 3, Article 342, 1-11.


Ermakov, P.N., & Saakyan, O.S. (2013). Peculiarities of brain electric activity in young males and females of different creativity levels. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 6(3), 31-40. doi: 10.11621/pir.2013.0303


Galatenko, V.V., Livshitz, E.D., Chernorizov, A.M., Zinchenko, Yu.P., Galatenko, A.V., Staroverov, V.M., Isaychev, S.A., Lebedev, V.V., Menshikova, G.Ya., Sadovnichy, V,A,m Gusev, A.N., Gabidullina, R.F., & Podol’skii, V.E. (2013). Automated real-time classification of functional states: The significance of individual tuning stage. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 6(3), 41-48. doi: 10.11621/pir.2013.0304


Golaszewski, M., & Herbowski, P. (2013) Badania poligraficzne jako metoda weryfikacji wersji śledczych (Polygraph examinations as a method for verifying investigative scenarios). European Polygraph. Vol. 7, Number 1 (23), 39-43.


Holodnyy, Yu.I. (2008) Poll using a polygraph and his natural-scientific foundations. Polygraph in Russia 1993-2008: a retrospective collection of scientific articles devoted to the 15th anniversary of the use of polygraph in the Russian Federation [Poligraf v Rossii 1993-2008: retrospektivnyy sbornik nauchnykh statey, posvyashhennyy 15-letiyu primeneniya poligrafa v Rossiyskoy Federatsii]. Moscow, Izdatel’stvo MGTU im. N.E. Bauman, 177.


Ivanov, R.S. (2011) Overall suitability assessment of tested persons for using polygraph. Legal psychology [Yuridicheskaya psikhologiya]. 2, 14-21.


Ivanov, R.S. (2014) Individual symptom as a tool of interpretation of psychophysiological research results with the use of polygraph. National psychological journal [Natsional’nyy psikhologicheskiy zhurnal]. 3 (15), 90-97.


Kostina, L.M. (2006) Methods of diagnosing of anxiety. St. Petersburg, Rech’, 198.


Mae, R. (2001) The sense of anxiety. Moscow, Klass, 384.


Lewandowski, E., & Lewandowski, L. (2010) Forensic Examination of Memory Traces Part 2. European Polygraph. Vol. 4, Number 1 (11), 27-39.


Nakayama, M. (2002) Practical use of the concealed information test for criminal investigation in Japan. Handbook of Polygraph Testing. San Diego, Academic Press, 65.


Nehoroshkova, A.N., Gribanov, A.V., & Dzos, Y.S. (2014) The problem of anxiety as a complex psycho-physiological phenomenon. Human Ecology [Ekologiya cheloveka]. 6, 47-54.


Nikolaev, A.Y. (2011) Application psychophysiological study memory as a method of forensic diagnostics. Proceedings of the international scientific-practical conference of polygraph specialists of internal affairs bodies [Sbornik materialov mezhdunarodnoy nauchno-prakticheskoy konferentsii spetsialistov-poligrafologov organov vnutrennikh del]. Sochi, 165-171.


Ostroglazov, V.G. (2004) “AUTOPERSONAMNESIA. New psychopathological phenomenon?” Independent Journal of Psychiatry [Nezavisimyy psikhiatricheskiy zhurnal]. 4, 1, 2, 3.


Sidorov, K.R. (2013) Anxiety as a psychological phenomenon. Vestnik Udmurtskogo universiteta [Bulletin of Udmurt University]. Vol. 2, 42-52.


Silnitskaya, A.S., & Gusev, A.N. (2013). Character and temperamental determinants of prosodic parameters of natural speech. Psychology in Russia: State of the Art, 6(3), 95-106. doi: 10.11621/pir.2013.0309


Soldatkin, V.A., Ostroglazov, V.G., & Agafonov, D.S. (2013) Autopersonamneziya (biographic amnesia): depersonalization? Conversion? Simulation? Organic amnesia? Independent Journal of Psychiatry [Nezavisimyy psikhiatricheskiy zhurnal]. 1, 34-57.


Soloviev, S.L. (2012) Anxiety and Anxiety: Theory and Practice. Medical psychology in Russia [Meditsinskaya psikhologiya v Rossii]. 6 (17). - Electronic Resource – Mode of Access: <a href="http://medpsy.ru">http://medpsy.ru</a> (reference date: 07.24.2015).


Spielberger, C. (2008) Conceptual and methodological problems of anxiety studies. Alarm and anxiety: reader [Trevoga i trevozhnost’: khrestomatiya]. St. Petersburg, Per Se, 85-99.


Tselikovsky, S.B., & Ivanov, R.S. (2015) Anxiety as a predictor of the psycho-physiological response of the subject in the study of polygraph.
 «Modern trends in the development of science and technology»: a collection of scientific papers based on the IV International scientific-practical conference; Belgorod, 31 July 2015 Part VI [«Sovremennye tendentsii razvitiya nauki i tekhnologiy»: sbornik nauchnyh trudov po materialam IV Mezhdunarodnoy nauchno-prakticheskoy konferentsii; g. Belgorod, 31 iyulya 2015 g. Chast’ VI]. Belgorod, 127-139.


Varga, M., Visu-Petra, G., Miclea, M., & Bus, I. (2014) The RT-based Concealed Information Test: An Overview of Current Research and Future Perspectives. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences. Vol. 127, 681-685.

Verschuere, B., Crombez, G., Koster, H.W., & De Clercq, A. (2007) Antisociality, underarousal and the validity of the Concealed Information Polygraph Test. Biological Psychology. 74, 309-318.";s:4:"TYPE";s:4:"HTML";}

For citing this article:

Ivanov Roman S. (2015). Application of a polygraph detector in diagnosing symptom simulation of the biographical amnesia. National Psychological Journal. 4, 79-90.