Question 22 (part 2) · LEK · Dissociative disorders
A 25-year-old woman is brought to A&E in an ambulance after she was raped and assaulted by two burglars. Her neighbour, who witnessed the whole incident, called the police. The patient is fully alert and oriented to person, place and time. However, she has no recall of the incident and its details. This is most probably caused by:
- A. depersonalization/derealization.
- B. dissociative amnesia.
- C. dissociative fugue.
- D. traumatic brain injury.
- E. loss of voluntary memory.
Hint
The patient is fully alert and oriented and only the traumatic event is missing from memory — which psychogenic memory disturbance fits?
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