PUB - Publikationen an der Universität Bielefeld

Dissociative amnesia is an illness that can follow a chronic course, resulting in the life-long inability to work. It apparently occurs clustered in connection with migration, where it then takes a more severe course than in other cases. This illness is generally reversible, since the recall of memories is only blocked. Persons affected are those with a background of unprocessed or inadequately processed stressful experiences who have been exposed to a new stress experience leading to dissociative amnesia. Patients affected are primarily those who could not adequately be integrated in their new country. Their lack of knowledge of the local language and failure to find a proper work situation in accordance with their expectations are most likely reasons.