Psychogenic amnesia is characterized by:
In psychogenic amnesia (or dissociative amnesia), usually memory is lost for events which have some personal significance, whereas memories for neutral events (e.g. national events) is intact. Hence, the memory loss is patchy and mostly for personal memories.
Anterograde amnesia
Retrograde amnesia
Both with confabulation
Patchy impairment of personal memories
Neurotic, Stress Related and Somatoform Disorders