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fugue state

n. A rare psychiatric disorder characterized by reversible amnesia for personal identity, including the memory, personality and other identifying characteristics of individuality.

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Fugue state

Dissociative fugue, formerly fugue state or psychogenic fugue, is a DSM-5 dissociative disorder. It is a rare psychiatric disorder characterized by reversible amnesia for personal identity, including the memories, personality, and other identifying characteristics of individuality. The state is usually short-lived (ranging from hours to days), but can last months or longer. Dissociative fugue usually involves unplanned travel or wandering, and is sometimes accompanied by the establishment of a new identity. It is no longer its own classification or diagnosis as it was in the DSM-IV, but is now a facet of dissociative amnesia according to the DSM-5.

After recovery from fugue, previous memories usually return intact. Because of this, there is not normally any treatment necessary for people who have been in fugue states. Additionally, an episode of fugue is not characterized as attributable to a psychiatric disorder if it can be related to the ingestion of psychotropic substances, to physical trauma, to a general medical condition, or to other psychiatric conditions such as dissociative identity disorder, delirium, or dementia. Fugues are usually precipitated by a stressful episode, and upon recovery there may be amnesia for the original stressor ( dissociative amnesia).

Usage examples of "fugue state".

Martin Silenus watched out the window for one full hour, fighting the tides of reawakening pain and the terrible sleepy urge to return to fugue state.

Even through the disorientation of fugue state, he now remembered the painful therapy sessions, the long hours in the RNA virus baths, and the surgery.

I wasn't entirely certain whether Twink would spot my car if she happened to be in the fugue state.

He questioned her closely during her visits last fall when she kept lapsing into the fugue state, and he spotted the blank days almost immediately.

She'd been certain she'd killed the priest while in a fugue state, although of course someone else had murdered him and stuffed him in her closet, and the entire bizarre homicide was closed.

Because certain hungers are not easily sated, he wants to amplify these thrills, crank up the volume, so to speak, by bringing Fiona at least part of the way out of her more-than-trance-not-quite-fugue state into a higher level of consciousness.

I run a few thousand simulations to verify that the modified me will not accidentally self-destruct or go into a catatonic fugue state, and then, once it is clear that the modification works, I make the changes.

He told him about the fugue state he had entered at his office yesterday, and what he had written (as well as he could remember it) on the back of the order-form.

A few hours of fugue state might yield an instant of Power-grade thought--and even that he didn't consciously remember.

A few hours of fugue state might yield an instant of Power-grade thought -- and even that he didn't consciously remember.

A few hours of fugue state might yield an instant of Power-grade thought&mdash.