Editor's Note: This story contains graphic descriptions that some readers may find disturbing. Ron Blake understands trauma. He also understands what it's like to work through it. Blake was raped more ...

Dissociative amnesia is one of several dissociative disorders in which a person forgets key elements of their life, and is therefore divorced from a full understanding of themselves and their current ...

Ulalume: A Ballad is one of Edgar Allan Poe’s most remarkable poems. Not only does it tell a tragic horror story in verse form, but it accurately portrays the symptoms of a specific type of amnesia.