psychiatric disorders
Dissociative Amnesia
Prognosis for Dissociative Amnesia
Sometimes memories return quickly, as can happen when patients are taken out of the traumatic or stressful situation (eg, combat). In other cases, amnesia, particularly in patients with dissociative fugue, persists for a long time. The capacity for dissociation may decrease with age. Most patients recover their missing memories, and amnesia resolves. However, some are never able to reconstruct their missing past. The prognosis is determined mainly by the following: The patient’s life circumstances, particularly stresses and conflicts associated with the amnesia The patient’s overall psychologic adjustment 