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