AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Dissociative fugue is a symptom where a person with memory loss travels or wanders. That leaves the person in an unfamiliar setting with no memory of how they got there. This symptom usually happens with conditions caused by severe trauma.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dissociative fugue is a psychiatric disorder characterized by amnesia coupled with sudden unexpected travel away from the individual’s usual surroundings and denial of all memory of his or her whereabouts during the period of wandering.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dissociative Fugue (Psychogenic Fugue) Dissociative fugue is characterized by the 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.

Detailed explanation-4: -Dissociative amnesia. You can’t recall information about yourself or events and people in your life, especially from a traumatic time. Dissociative amnesia can be specific to events in a certain time, such as intense combat, or more rarely, can involve complete loss of memory about yourself.

Detailed explanation-5: -Dissociative fugue can last for hours to months and there is a loss of memory during the fugue state. There is no amnesia of events prior to the event or impediment on the formation of new memories [3-4, 6]. It is important to rule out other disorders when making the diagnosis of dissociative amnesia.