sential feature of dissociative amnesia; individuals may experience localized or selective
amnesia most commonly, or generalized amnesia rarely. Dissociative fugue is rare in per-
sons with dissociative am nesia but common in dissoc iative identity disorder.
Dissociative identity disorder is characterized by a) the presence of two or more distinct
personality states or an experi ence of possession and b) recurrent episodes of amnesia. The