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PSYCHOGENIC FUGUE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to create 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
Synonyms:
fugue; psychogenic fugue
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("psychogenic fugue" is a kind of...):
dissociative disorder (dissociation so severe that the usually integrated functions of consciousness and perception of self break down)
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