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Dissociative amnesia or psychogenic amnesia is a dissociative disorder "characterized by retrospectively reported memory gaps. These gaps involve an inability to recall personal information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature."
Dissociative amnesia Also linked to trauma, dissociative amnesia involves forgetting chunks of your life or sometimes your entire autobiography, Dr. Clouden says. “This is your mind’s way of ...
The list of available dissociative disorders listed in the DSM-5 changed from the DSM-IV-TR, as the authors removed the diagnosis of dissociative fugue, classifying it instead as a subtype of dissociative amnesia. Furthermore, the authors recognized derealization on the same diagnostic level of depersonalization with the opportunity of ...
Dissociative identity disorder; Other names: Multiple personality disorder Split personality disorder: Specialty: Psychiatry, clinical psychology: Symptoms: At least two distinct and relatively enduring personality states, [1] recurrent episodes of dissociative amnesia, [1] inexplicable intrusions into consciousness (e.g., voices, intrusive thoughts, impulses, trauma-related beliefs), [1] [2 ...
Ansel Bourne (1826–1910) was a famous 19th-century psychology case due to his experience of a probable dissociative fugue. The case, among the first ever documented, [1] [2] remains of interest as an example of multiple personality and amnesia. Among the doctors who treated Bourne was William James. Bourne was an evangelical preacher living ...
A prominent more specific theory of memory repression, "Betrayal Trauma Theory", proposes that memories for childhood abuse are the most likely to be repressed because of the intense emotional trauma produced by being abused by someone the child is dependent on for emotional and physical support; in such situations, according to this theory ...
These studies show that DD's have an intricate relationship with the patient's mental, physical and socio-cultural environments. [38] This study suggested that dissociative disorders are more common in Western, or developing countries, [38] however, some cases have been seen in both clinical and non-clinical Chinese populations. [38]
Fragmentation of memory is common in two dissociative disorders. [7] Dissociative or Psychogenic Amnesia [8] is not to be confused with general amnesia, in which the sufferer is unable to recall whole periods of time, perhaps of several years' duration. In the dissociative version, there a disruption in recalling specific events, usually ...