While loss of memory can occur for many reasons, dissociative fugue has no direct physical or medical cause.

Although they have a son, Lauren enters a dissociative fugue one night, and blames herself when their child later dies.

Dissociative fugue normally revolves around a specific trip taken by the person suffering from the disorder.

However, some argue that "running" syndromes are really not dissociative fugue, and have no proper Western medical classification.

Dissociative fugue: An overwhelming urge for "sudden, unexpected travel away from home or one's customary place of work."

Similarly, other psychological disorders may manifest symptoms similar to 'Dissociative Fugue's.

Dissociative fugue usually involves unplanned travel or wandering, and is sometimes accompanied by the establishment of a new identity.

The episode was diagnosed as dissociative fugue.

He was diagnosed with dissociative fugue.

Ansel Bourne was a famous 19th century psychology case due to his experience of a probable dissociative fugue.

For example, I had never even heard of "dissociative fugue" but was intrigued by the description and astonished to learn of its rather high incidence.

Sometimes dissociative fugue cannot be diagnosed until people abruptly return to their pre-fugue identity and are distressed to find themselves in unfamiliar circumstances.

Zeke was suffering from a Dissociative Fugue and had no memory from before the rafting accident.

Dissociative fugue became a specifier for dissociative amnesia.

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

A fugue state, formally dissociative fugue, is a rare condition precipitated by a stressful episode.

"Dissociative Fugue" from the Mental Health Matters website.

"Dissociative Fugue" from the Merck & Co. website.

Both dissociative amnesia and dissociative fugue usually emerge in adulthood and rarely occur after the age of 50.

The term psychogenic fugue was recategorized as dissociative fugue so now (according to the authors) it is a state of mind that doesn't exist.

Dissociative fugue affects many characters in David Lynch films with the most explicit example being the protagonist of Lost Highway.

Therefore, the terminology fugue state may carry a slight linguistic distinction from Dissociative Fugue, the former implying a greater degree of motion.

The Merck Manual defines Dissociative Fugue as:

More pathological dissociation involves dissociative disorders, including dissociative fugue and depersonalization disorder with or without alterations in personal identity or sense of self.

David Fitzpatrick, a sufferer of dissociative fugue disorder, from the United Kingdom, was profiled on Five's television series Extraordinary People.