severe anterograde amnesia temporally graded retrograde amnesia Long-term Memory.
Dissociative Amnesia
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Dissociative AmnesiaBy Thomas Cassidy
Symptoms Inability to remember
• Past actions• Personal information
Lose consciousness Depression Anxiety
Disorder Maladaptivity
• Memory loss
Unjustifiable Behavior• Waking up in randomlocations with no memory
Disorder Disturbing Behavior
• Hard to keep relationships• Burden
Typicality• Happen to anybody• Random occasions
Causes Psychological
• Stressful events (war, abuse)• Repression
Biological• Genetics (?)
Treatment Psychoanalysis
• Dream analysis Psychotherapy
• Increase insight Medication
Treatment Cognitive Therapy
• Changes abnormal thinkingpatterns
Family therapy Clinical Hypnosis
• Raises awareness through relaxation and concentration
The Man with No Past
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QajubDsCcrw&feature=player_embedded
http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Dissociation_and_dissociative_disorders