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Before dissociative fugue can be diagnosed, either dissociative amnesia or dissociative identity disorder must be diagnosed. [7] The only difference between dissociative amnesia, dissociative identity disorder and dissociative fugue is that the person affected by the latter travels or wanders. This traveling or wandering is typically associated ...
This glossary covers terms found in the psychiatric literature; the word origins are primarily Greek, but there are also Latin, French, German, and English terms. Many of these terms refer to expressions dating from the early days of psychiatry in Europe; some are deprecated, and thus are of historic interest.
Folie à deux (French for 'madness of two'), [1] also called shared psychosis [3] or shared delusional disorder (SDD), is a rare psychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief [4] are "transmitted" from one individual to another.
Dissociative amnesia or psychogenic amnesia is a dissociative disorder "characterized by retrospectively reported memory gaps. These gaps involve an inability to recall personal information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature."
The term dromomania is derived from combining the Greek dromos, meaning "running" with the root mania. The term has sometimes been clinical and pathologizing , and other times been descriptive of unusual enthusiasm without negative or medicalizing connotations, reflecting the diverse uses of the term mania itself.
The Fugue (foaled 2009), a British Thoroughbred racehorse; Fugue state, a psychological term; Fugue State Press, a small New York City literary publisher; Fuging tune, a variety of Anglo-American vernacular choral music "Fugue", an instrumental by The Dillinger Escape Plan from Dissociation "Fugue", a song by Emerson, Lake & Palmer from Trilogy
Dissociative identity disorder; Other names: Multiple personality disorder Split personality disorder: Specialty: Psychiatry, clinical psychology: Symptoms: At least two distinct and relatively enduring personality states, [1] recurrent episodes of dissociative amnesia, [1] inexplicable intrusions into consciousness (e.g., voices, intrusive thoughts, impulses, trauma-related beliefs), [1] [2 ...
Some psychologists, however, such as Bushman and Anderson, argue that the hostile/predatory dichotomy that is commonly employed in psychology fails to define rage fully, since it is possible for anger to motivate aggression, provoking vengeful behavior, without incorporating the impulsive thinking that is characteristic of rage.