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Dissociative (psychogenic) amnesia and fugue

Understand the model, recognise it in a stem, separate the look-alikes, then apply it.

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Watch it explainedHe does not know his own name. He remembers everything since he arrived.
"Lock the drawer, keep the office running" — memory retrieval is blocked (the locked drawer) but everyday functioning, skills, and general intellect stay fully intact (the office).

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