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psychogenic fugue

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Noun1.psychogenic fugue - dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to creates a new life; during the fugue there is no memory of the former life; after recovering there is no memory for events during the dissociative state
dissociative disorder - dissociation so severe that the usually integrated functions of consciousness and perception of self break down


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Lynch says he gets a bout of psychogenic fugue (in layman's terms, flight from reality) 'almost every afternoon'; whatever the source of Jelinek's anxieties, she and Neuwirth say they saw in the movie an opportunity for music-theatre to 'play with time flow'.
In December 2005, he suffered an incredibly rare form of amnesia called psychogenic fugue which wiped out all memory of his entire 25 years.
In 2005, he was an ordinary bloke but at some point in the afternoon of December 4, he had a rare form of memory loss - a psychogenic fugue.
 
 
 
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