After surviving a particularly violent tornado,Dean experiences a selective memory loss for specific traumatic events that occurred just before and during the disaster.Other than these specific memory losses,Dean's personality and subjective sense of identity are essentially unchanged.Dean would most likely be diagnosed with:

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Dean's selective memory loss of specific traumatic events points towards psychogenic amnesia, where a person experiences memory loss as a coping mechanism for traumatic events. Dissociative identity disorder and schizophrenia involve more profound changes in personality and identity, which is not seen in Dean's case. Psychogenic fugue involves sudden travel or wandering away from one's usual environment due to memory loss, which is not seen in Dean's case.

After Surviving a Particularly Violent Tornado,Dean Experiences a Selective Memory