Sudden loss of ability to recall important personal information,usually related to traumatic or stressful experiences,in the absence of any physical trauma to the brain or drug intoxication,characterizes ________.

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Dissociative amnesia is characterized by sudden loss of ability to recall important personal information, usually related to traumatic or stressful experiences, in the absence of any physical trauma to the brain or drug intoxication. Dissociative fugue involves sudden travel away from home, and retrograde amnesia involves loss of memory for events that occurred before the onset of amnesia. Depersonalization/derealization disorder involves feelings of detachment or unreality about one's self or surroundings.

Sudden Loss of Ability to Recall Important Personal Information,usually Related