The etiology of the fugue state is related to dissociative amnesia, ( DSM-IV Codes 300. 12 ) which has several other subtypes: Selective Amnesia, Generalised Amnesia, Continuous Amnesia, Systematised Amnesia, in addition to the subtype Dissociative Fugue.

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

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

" While there were some initial suspicions that she had been faking amnesia, some experts have come to believe that she genuinely suffered a protracted fugue state.

He entered a fugue state on December 4, 2005, and is still working on regaining his entire life's memories.

Possibly, the most profound example of extraordinarily prolonged dissociative fugue can be found in Iain Banks ' the Culture series novels, where " the perfect mercenary " Cheradenine Zakalwe persists in such a state for more than a millennium, including almost one hundred lifetimes in simulated environments.

In the TV Series One Tree Hill, the character Clay, in season 9 experiences fugue state.

In the TV Series Breaking Bad, the character Walter White fakes a fugue state to cover up his kidnapping.

In the TV Series Teen Wolf, the character Lydia, experiences a fugue state in season 2 following being bitten by a werewolf.

In the TV Series Doctor Who, the character in the 2009 Christmas special, Jackson Lake, suffers a fugue state after witnessing the death of his wife by a Cyberman attack.

It described the possible occurrence of alterations in the patient's state of consciousness or identity, and included the symptoms of " amnesia, somnambulism, fugue, and multiple personality.

The APA wrote in the second edition of the DSM: " In the dissociative type, alterations may occur in the patient's state of consciousness or in his identity, to produce such symptoms as amnesia, somnambulism, fugue, and multiple personality.

Thus, a person suffering from somnambulism, a fugue, a metabolic disorder, epilepsy, or other convulsive or reflexive disorder, who kills another, steals another's property, or engages in other facially criminal conduct, may not have committed an actus reus, for such conduct may have been elicited unconsciously, and, " one who engages in what would otherwise be criminal conduct is not guilty of a crime if he does so in a state of unconsciousness " Depending on jurisdiction, automatism may be a defense distinct from insanity or a species of it.

Betty witnesses the murder and experiences a fugue state, escaping the reality of murder into the comforting fantasy of the soap opera.

After learning this, Garibaldi entered a fugue state, and alerted Bester and the Psi Corps.

* Martin SilenusSilenus is a poet who has lived for centuries due to advanced technology and the coma-like cryogenic fugue state.

His younger brother, Joseph, enters a fugue state after watching his brother ripped to pieces.

It is characterized by nonsensical or wrong answers to questions or doing things incorrectly, other dissociative symptoms such as fugue, amnesia or conversion disorder, often with visual pseudohallucinations and a decreased state of consciousness.

In an attempt to find a stable defense against the planet destroying phenomenon known as " cultural fugue " ( a state of terminal runaway of cultural and technological complexity that destroys all life on a world via a singularity ), many human worlds are aligned with one of two broad factions, one generally permissive ( the Sygn ) and one generally conservative ( the Family ) by today's standards.

Sabbath first appears as the unnamed character who brings Anji Kapoor out of a fugue state in The Slow Empire, although from her perspective she hasn't met him yet.

The effects have been likened to sleepwalking, a fugue state or a psychotic episode ( particularly in that the subject has minimal control over their actions and little to no recall of the experience ).

Gradually, the malignant intelligence takes over Cory's personality, leaving him in an amnesiac fugue state when he awakes.

The tiento is formally extraordinarily diverse, more a set of guidelines than a rigid structural model such as fugue or rondo.

A doctor may suspect dissociative fugue when people seem confused about their identity or are puzzled about their past or when confrontations challenge their new identity or absence of one.

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

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

The episode was diagnosed as dissociative fugue.

The symptoms of dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue and depersonalization disorder are subsumed under DID diagnosis and are not diagnosed separately.

The dissociative disorders in DSM-IV-TR include dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue, dissociative identity disorder, depersonalization disorder, and dissociative disorder not otherwise specified.

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

These alterations can include: a sense that self or the world is unreal ( derealization and depersonalization ); a loss of memory ( amnesia ); forgetting identity or assuming a new self ( fugue ); and fragmentation of identity or self into separate streams of consciousness ( dissociative identity disorder, formerly termed multiple personality disorder ) and complex post-traumatic stress disorder.

According to the DSM-IV-TR, which classifies Ganser syndrome as a dissociative disorder, it is " the giving of approximate answers to questions ( e. g. ' 2 plus 2 equals 5 ' when not associated with dissociative amnesia or dissociative fugue ).

Both films focus on the nightmare as it is expressed in the elusive doubling of characters and in the incorporation of the “ psychogenic fugue ,” the evacuation and replacement of identities, something that was also central to the voodoo ritual.

During filming, Deborah Wuliger, the unit publicist, came upon the idea of a psychogenic fugue which Lynch and Gifford subsequently incorporated into the film.

Bates appears to have suffered from a strange episode of amnesia ( or possibly psychogenic fugue ), referred to in his obituary, perhaps wrongly as ' a strange form of aphasia '.

Primarily referred to as psychogenic amnesia or psychogenic fugue, it often occurs due to a traumatic situation that individuals wish to consciously or unconsciously avoid.

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

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

Dissociative fugue -

* Dissociative fugue: ( formerly Psychogenic Fugue ): physical desertion of familiar surroundings and experience of impaired recall of the past.

He envisaged instruments in which the French late-romantic full-organ sound should work integrally with the English and German romantic reed pipes, and with the classical Alsace Silbermann organ resources and baroque flue pipes, all in registers regulated ( by stops ) to access distinct voices in fugue or counterpoint capable of combination without loss of distinctness: different voices singing together in the same music.

The theme for the scherzo can be traced back to a fugue written in 1815.

Within this sonata form, the first group of the exposition starts out with a fugue before modulating to C major for the second part of the exposition.

He returned to college after serving nearly four years in the army, this time attending Mills College and studying under Darius Milhaud, who encouraged him to study fugue and orchestration, but not classical piano.

The six-part fugue from The Musical Offering, in the hand of Johann Sebastian Bach.

In music, a fugue ( ) is a compositional technique ( in classical music ) in two or more voices, built on a subject ( theme ) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation ( repetition at different pitches ) and recurs frequently in the course of the composition.

The English term fugue originated in the 16th century and is derived from the French word fugue or the Italian fuga.

A fugue usually has three sections: an exposition, a development, and a recapitulation containing the return of the subject in the fugue's tonic key, though not all fugues have a recapitulation.

Since the 17th century, the term fugue has described what is commonly regarded as the most fully developed procedure of imitative counterpoint.

In this sense, a fugue is a style of composition, rather than a fixed structure.

The famous fugue composer Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ) shaped his own works after those of Johann Jakob Froberger ( 1616 – 1667 ), Johann Pachelbel ( 1653 – 1706 ), Girolamo Frescobaldi ( 1583 – 1643 ), Dieterich Buxtehude ( c. 1637 – 1707 ), and other composers.

A fugue begins with the exposition and is written according to certain predefined rules ; in later portions the composer has more freedom, though a logical key structure is usually followed.

Further entries of the subject will occur throughout the fugue, repeating the accompanying material at the same time.

After recovery from fugue, previous memories usually return intact, but there is typically amnesia for the fugue episode.

Additionally, an episode of fugue is not characterized as attributable to a psychiatric disorder if it can be related to the ingestion of psychotropic substances, to physical trauma, to a general medical condition, or to psychiatric conditions such as delirium, dementia, bipolar disorder or depression.