A spy suffers identity loss and must use his skills to follow the clues leading back to his clandestine past.

 Jason Bourne is pulled from the sea by a passing fishing vessel, with no knowledge of who he is, or how he came to drift alone in open water.  The bullets in his back and the bank code embedded in his hip are the only bits of information to survive his identity loss.  Bourne must evade his pursuers, while slowly piecing together what few clues he can find that help uncover memories of his secret life as a government assassin.




Neuropsychological Review
An action packed "Who Am I?"
Joesph Hengoed

“Who am I?”- Jason Bourne
Jason Bourne, trained CIA assassin, is found floating in the Mediterranean Sea with two bullets in his back and no memory of who he is or where he came from.  Jason is experiencing a complete loss of identity and complete retrograde amnesia, or the loss of his memories before the accident.   Jason’s amnesia may be due to

  A private investigator loses his identity and memory nightly after he is caught in an explosion, and must hide his condition until he can testify against a dangerous crime lord. 

  M. L. Pogue wakes up each day without any idea who he is, or what has happened the previous day.  His injury, the collateral damage of a car bomb, has left him with identity loss.  Pogue listens to a cassette recording every morning to learn who he is and what has happened.  His testimony - which he recorded prior to his injury- is vital to the District Attorney's case against Cornell, the criminal responsible for the bombing.   Pogue must keep his condition a secret or risk letting Cornell walk free.

 A Hollywood writer with identity loss  (amnesia) assumes a new life while attempting to regain his memories and true identity. 

 Peter Appleton is a writer living in Hollywood during the Red Scare.  Suspected of being involved with the communist party, he is fired from his job. Emotionally distraught, he crashes his car and is knocked unconscious and swept downstream. When he washes up on the shores of a remote California town he has no idea where or who he is.  The owner of the local movie theatre, Harry, mistakes Peter for his long lost son (Lance), and, knowing no better himself, Peter begins a new life as Lance.  Together, Peter and Harry restore the dilapidated theatre to its former glory. Although the town’s people attempt to jog Lance's memory, only a trigger from Peter’s past restores his identity.

 A young Russian princess loses her true identity and gradually regains it as reminders of her past emerge. 


The Russian princess Anastasia, loses her family to the revolution then loses her identity after falling from a train and hitting her head while escaping with her grandmother. 10 years later, she leaves the orphanage to embark on a quest to find her identity and family. Although con men and evil characters try to take advantage of her, tokens, songs and memories from her past gradually emerge to jog her memory and reunite her with her grandmother and reveal her true identity.