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Dissociative Amnesia

Formerly known as psychogenic amnesia, it is predominantly characterized by episodes of inability to recall personal information, most often related to events that are traumatic or stressful in nature. But such inability to recall is too significant to attribute to ordinary forgetfulness. Such amnesic episodes cause clinical significant distress or impairment in the affected individual's social, occupational and other parts of his/her life. Dissociative Amnesia is amnesia that cannot be accounted for by possible head injuries or other physical trauma (e.g., concussion), or other cerebral events (e.g., stroke).

On next blog, I'll discuss the dissociative fugue. So stay tuned.