• A. An inability to recall important autobiographical information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature, that is inconsistent with ordinary forgetting.

Note: Dissociative amnesia most often consists of localized or selective amnesia for a specific event or events; or generalized amnesia for identity and life history.

AND

• B. The symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupa tional, or other important areas of functioning.

AND

• C. The disturbance is not attributable to the physiological effects of a substance (e.g., al cohol or other drug of abuse, a medication) or a neurological or other medical condition (e.g., partial complex seizures, transient global amnesia, sequelae of a closed head in jury/traumatic brain injury, other neurological condition).

AND

• D. The disturbance is not better explained by dissociative identity disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, acute stress disorder, somatic symptom disorder, or major or mild neu- rocognitive disorder.

Specify if;

With dissociative fugue: Apparently purposeful travel or bewildered wandering that is associated with amnesia for identity or for other important autobiographical information.