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Article: Fugue
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- Complete Human Diseases and Conditions
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Fugue
How Do People with Fugue Function?
Do Other Conditions Resemble Fugue?
Fugue (FYOOG) refers to a psychiatric condition in which people wander or travel and may appear to be functioning normally, but they are unable to remember their identity or details about their past
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Dissociative fugue
Psychogenic fugue
Sigmund Freud, one of the fathers of modern psychiatry, believed that the mind has defense mechanisms, or built-in ways of experiencing reality, that prevent it from being overwhelmed by worry or
depression*
. In fact, Freud believed that people are not even aware of the way their minds take care of ...