FUNCTIONAL AMNESIA

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N., Pam M.S.
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a psychiatric disorder with amnesia for autobiographical events. Episodic memory is lost about yourself as is semantic memory when a person will forget who they are.

FUNCTIONAL AMNESIA: "Functional amnesia is also called affective amnesia."

Related Psychology Terms

  1. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY INTERVIEW (AMI)
  2. REMINISCENCE
  3. ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA
  4. MINERVA 2
  5. TRANSIENT GLOBAL AMNESIA (TGA)
  6. RETROGRADE AMNESIA
  7. POSTENCEPHALITIC AMNESIA
  8. SELECTIVE AMNESIA
  9. EPISODIC MEMORY
  10. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY
Cite this page: N., Pam M.S., "FUNCTIONAL AMNESIA," in PsychologyDictionary.org, May 11, 2013, https://psychologydictionary.org/functional-amnesia/ (accessed April 19, 2021).
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