ABSTRACT
The psychotherapeutic treatment of multiple personality requires sufficient subspecialization that the clinician should either be experienced in the area or seek supervision. The anxiety-ridden perceptions, memories, and screened memories that have given rise to dissociative and depressive symptoms must be dealt with, and more adaptive resolutions found. The most common clinical presentation of Psychogenic Amnesia is in an emergency room or military clinic, often following severe emotional trauma. Psychogenic Fugue may be considered similar in purpose to amnesia but as involving a necessity for more dissociation from an affect-laden event and/or from the self. The most common clinical presentation of Psychogenic Amnesia is in an emergency room or military clinic, often following severe emotional trauma. Symptom-oriented approaches such as hypnosis, amytal interview, or even brief psychotherapy sometimes imply that the patient’s symptoms are interesting and worth keeping because of the attention they generate.
