in amnesia, the rememberer has lost that link with the past. The rememberer has lost the identity of rememberer and is instead some other kind of person - one who does not have a belief in the ability to call up true recollections of past experience.
In psychology today, both amnesia and fugue states are considered to be dissociative states, or forms of mental disorder, that are categorized in the DSM-IV. However, there is also evidence that amnesia is created directly by damage to the brain and brain structures. For example, Schachter described a young patient who had portions of the medial temporal lobe removed which left him with severe anterograde amnesia and some retrograde amnesia, too. Thus, the connection between elements in these structures and memory was clearly made. Also, because the patient did have quite a bit of memory from before the time of the operation, it seemed clear that memory was not all stored in the same place at the same time. In some way, in some regions of his bra
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