Dissociative amnesia is one of several dissociative disorders in which a person forgets key elements of their life, and is therefore divorced from a full understanding of themselves and their current ...

Amnesia is the loss of memories. These may be memories of events and experiences that happened in the past few seconds, in the past few days, or in the distant past. You may also be unable to recall ...

Editor's Note: This story contains graphic descriptions that some readers may find disturbing. Ron Blake understands trauma. He also understands what it's like to work through it. Blake was raped more ...

Last week Nancy Brophy, a romance novelist who once wrote a blog post called "How to Murder Your Husband," was convicted of murdering her husband. When questioned in court about her whereabouts on the ...

When adults claim to have suddenly recalled painful events from their childhood, are those memories likely to be accurate? This question is the basis of the “memory wars” that have roiled psychology ...

A man with amnesia who had been searching for his identity since a scheduled visit to his mother in Alberta last month was recognized by family and friends in Washington state when he appeared on ...

CHASKA, Minn. — Authorities south of the Twin Cities are asking for the public's help in locating a missing 53-year-old woman. The Chaska Police Department says Michelle Mushel, who has disassociative ...

Blake was raped more than a decade ago. Held down, beaten and assaulted. The men responsible, including a prior domestic partner of his, were all aware he was a gay man. Police made no arrests. A ...