Generalized amnesia (rare): acute onset of complete loss of memory for one’s life history.Continuous amnesia: loss of memory for each new event as it occurs.Systematized amnesia: loss of memory for a specific category of information.Selective amnesia: can recall some, but not all parts of a circumscribed period of time or traumatic event.Localized amnesia (the most common form): failure to recall events during a circumscribed period of time.The DSM-5 lists a variety of memory disturbances that can occur in dissociative amnesia :.
May overlap with dissociative fugue, which is apparently purposeful travel or bewildered wandering that is associated with autobiographical amnesia. The concept of repression (repression of memory regarding traumatic events) remains controversial, with scientific studies often being interpreted as supportive of both sides of the argument. This is a controversial diagnostic entity that incorporates elements of psychogenic fugue states (psychogenic amnesia), repressed memory, traumatic amnesia, and conversion. The DSM-5 lists the defining feature as inability to recall important autobiograpical information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature, that is inconsistent with ordinary forgetting. Characterized by an apparent disruption of and/or discontinuity in the normal integration of consciousness, memory, identity, emotion, perception, body representation, motor control, and behavior. Previously known as psychogenic amnesia, renamed dissociative amnesia in DSM-IV. DEFINE AMNESIA MANUAL
Dissociative amnesia is classified under the Dissociative Disorders section of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5).
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