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Dissociative Fugue
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Dissociative Fugue - The essential feature of Dissociative Fugue is
sudden, unexpected travel away from home or one's customary place of daily
activities, with inability to recall some or all of one's past.
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Dissociative Fugue - Dissociative Fugue (DF; the word fugue is derived
from the Latin word for flight) is diagnosed when a person "runs away from
home" and has amnesia for his or her former life. Healthinmind/Mental
Health Disorders/Dissociative Disorders
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The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, Dissociative Fugue - One or
more episodes of amnesia in which the inability to recall some or all of
one's past and either the loss of one's identity or the formation of a new
identity occur with sudden, unexpected, purposeful travel away from home.
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Wednesday November 12, 2008
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