Topic: Dissociative Amnesia Authors:  Manar Lotfy, Nada Talal, Niveen Sherif, Rovan Emad Editor: Menna Marwan Reviewer: Ethar Hazaimeh Keywords: Amnesia, dissociative amnesia, controversial psychiatric disorders, DSM-5, post-traumatic amnesia, and memory loss Overview Dissociative amnesia is among the most ambiguous and controversial psychiatric disorders. It is characterized by retrieval blockade of episodic autobiographical memories arising in the context of psychological trauma (whether known or not), with no evidence of brain injury on structural imaging. Patients experience an interruption of self. The definition of dissociative amnesia was given in the 2017 French International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (CIM10) as […]