Lillian is unable to remember anything about the fire in her home in which her child was killed and her husband was seriously injured, despite the fact that she was home at the time. Lillian's failure to remember is best interpreted as

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Lillian's inability to remember the traumatic event is consistent with dissociative amnesia, which is a type of dissociative disorder characterized by the inability to recall important personal information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature. Somatoform disorder involves physical symptoms with no known medical cause, multiple personality is now known as dissociative identity disorder (DID) and involves the presence of two or more distinct personality states, and dissociative fugue involves sudden travel away from home or work and an inability to recall one's past.

Lillian Is Unable to Remember Anything About the Fire in Her