![]() ![]() It is most commonly associated with traumatic events or violent experiences involving emotional shock, such as being mugged or raped or involved in a car crash. Re-experiencing of the original trauma through flashbacks or nightmares and avoidance of any stimuli associated with the trauma, as well as increased arousal (such as difficulty falling or staying asleep, anger and hypervigilance). Results in psychological trauma, which manifests itself in constant Post-traumatic stress disorder ( PTSD) is a severeĪnxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to any event that Situation-specific amnesia is a type of psychogenic amnesia that occurs as a result of a severely stressful event, as part of post-traumatic stress disorder. It is very rare, and usually resolves over time (although the memory of the fugue episode itself may remain lost), often helped by therapy. Global amnesia, also known as fugue state, refers to a sudden loss of personal identity lasting a few hours or days, often accompanied by severe stress or depression and often involving extended periods of wandering and confusion. There are two main types of psychogenic amnesia: global amnesia and situation-specific amnesia. In the same way, memory recovery that has been directed by dreams or hypnosis is also notoriously unreliable. many of one psychiatrist’s patients had been abducted by aliens, another's had all been molested, etc). ![]() It should also be noted that some patients of repressed memory syndrome claim to have had false memories of childhood sexual abuse suggested or prodded by their psychotherapists.įor example, certain psychiatrists have been shown to have an inordinate amount of patients with the same type of repressed memory (e.g. The “lost in the mall” experiments of Elizabeth Loftus, part of her ground-breaking research into confabulation, showed that fully 25% of participants claimed to be able to remember, and even embellish, supposed childhood events that never actually occurred. ![]() It is often considered to be equivalent to the clinical condition known as repressed memory syndrome. It results from the effects of severe stress or psychological trauma on the brain, rather than from any physical or physiological cause. Psychogenic amnesia, also known as functional amnesia or dissociative amnesia, is a disorder characterized by abnormal memory functioning in the absence of structural brain damage or a known neurobiological cause. ![]()
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