Psychogenic amnesia
Psychogenic amnesia or dissociative amnesia is a memory disorder characterized by sudden retrograde episodic memory loss, said to occur for a period of time ranging from hours to years.
Memory gaps[edit | edit source]
- More recently, dissociative amnesia has been defined as 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.
DSM criteria[edit | edit source]
In a change from the DSM-IV to the DSM-5, dissociative fugue is now subsumed under dissociative amnesia
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