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 for specific traumatic events is indicative of dissociative amnesia, which is characterized by the inability to recall important personal information, usually associated with traumatic or stressful events, without a neurological explanation. The other options (psychogenic fugue, dissociative fugue, schizophrenia-disorganized type) do not accurately explain Dean's symptoms.

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