Psychogenic Amnesia

Definition

Psychogenic amnesia, also known as functional amnesia, is a disorder characterized by the inability to recall personal information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature.

Related terms

Retrograde Amnesia:

A loss of memory-access to events that occurred before an injury or onset of a disease.

Anterograde Amnesia:

The inability to create new memories after the event that caused the amnesia.

Repressed Memory: A hypothetical concept where memories for traumatic events may be stored in the unconscious mind and blocked from normal conscious recall.