-These disorders involve a disruption in their thought process
-three types: psychogenic amnesia, dissociative fugue, and dissociative identity disorder (DID)
Psychogenic Amnesia
A person cannot remember things with no physiological basis for the disruption in memory (retrograde amnesia, NOT organic amnesia- head trauma, epileptic seizure, substance abuse, etc)
Dissociative Fugue
-People with psychogenic amnesia find themselves in an unfamiliar environment. They forget their true identity and past, replacing them with an imaginary identity and past
-An example is Jason Bourne in the Bourne series.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
-previously known as Multiple Personality Disorder
-A person has several rather than one integrated personality
-people with DID commonly have a history of childhood abuse or trauma
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