This is a book I'd like to read - I've heard about the body storing trauma and it expressing itself in the form of ailments - for example I have fibromyalgia - it has a psychological component - no wonder I was miserable and depressed when I was diagnosed...
I too have wondered why I keep forgetting people from my past - like once I was at a supermarket and a college mate walked up to me - I had no recollection who she was - she must have thought me rude but I genuinely had no memory of her...