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fugue state

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fugue state (plural fugue states)

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

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For infobox Dissociative fugue, formerly fugue state or psychogenic fugue, is a DSM-5 dissociative disorder. Source: Internet

In the 2015 film, " Into The Forest ", Ellen Page's character, Nell, studies and explains to Eli about fugue state after a power grid failure in the United States. Source: Internet

Film In the film " Altered States " (1980) William Hurt 's character Dr Edward Jessup emerges from a sensory deprivation tank/drug experience bloodied and aphasic and is misdiagnosed as having entered a fugue state post seizure in the tank. Source: Internet

For the purposes of this article then, a fugue state would occur while one is acting out a Dissociative Fugue. Source: Internet

Initially, in her fugue state she takes on the personality of Wanda Detroit, a fictional lounge singer from her novel. Source: Internet

″ In Kerry Lonsdale's 2016 novel, Everything We Keep, the main character enters a fugue state while being presumed dead. Source: Internet

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