Recurrent Dissociative Fugue

Dissociative fugue in the patient of maternity ward – case report

[Dissociative fugue in a maternity ward patient--a case report].

AIM To pay attention to the role of stress connected with delivery, obstetric history, as to the pathologies in the infant as predictors of dissociative disturbances in the patient of the maternity ward. METHOD The case analysis. CASE DESCRIPTION The thirty-year-old woman with secondary education, married and employed had left the maternity ward with her baby unnoticed on the fourth day aft...

Dissociative fugue symptoms in a 28-year-old male Nigerian medical student: a case report

INTRODUCTION Dissociative fugue is a psychiatric disorder characterized by amnesia coupled with sudden unexpected travel away from the individual's usual surroundings and denial of all memory of his or her whereabouts during the period of wandering. Dissociative fugue is a rare disorder that is infrequently reported. Before now, no case of it had been reported in a medical student. CASE PRESE...

Dissociative Fugue: Diagnosis, Presentation and Treatment Among the Traditional Shona People

Dissociative fugue seems to exist in all societies of the world. It could be noticeable but its prevalence in the general population is very low. Different societies of the world could identify dissociative fugue in different culturally relevant terms. The objective of the study was to assess the diagnosis, presentation and treatment of dissociative fugue among the traditional Shona people of Z...

Bach’s Art of the Fugue

J. S. Bach wrote The Art of the Fugue during the last years of his life. He probably began work on what turned out to be his longest and most complex instrumental composition in 1743, and he left the work incomplete at his death in July, 1750. The work was published in 1751 in Leipzig in a poorly engraved edition, the preparation of only part of which had been supervised by Bach himself. The pu...