PSYC 3P35 Lecture Notes - Depersonalization Disorder, Comorbidity, Dissociative Identity Disorder

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Dissociative amnesia: when a person is unable to recall important personal information, usually after some stressful episode. The information is not permanently lost, but it cannot be retrieved during the episode of amnesia. Rarely, the amnesia is for only selected events during a circumscribed period of distress, is continuous from a traumatic event to the present, or is total, covering the person"s entire life. The person"s behaviour during the period of amnesia is otherwise unremarkable, except that the memory loss may bring some disorientation and purposeless wandering. The amnesic episode may last several hours or as long as several years. It usually disappears as suddenly as it came on, with complex recovery and only a small change of recurrence. In degenerative brain diseases, memory fails more slowly over time, is not linked to life stress, and is accompanied by other cognitive deficits, such as the inability to learn new information.

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