A dissociative disorder in which a person experiences amnesia, relocates to a location, and assumes a new identity.
Sudden, unexpected travel away from one’s home or place of work with inability to recall one’s past. The individual may assume a partial or complete new identity. The condition is not due to organic brain disease. It may follow severe mental stress such as marital quarrels or a natural disaster. It is usually of short duration but can last for months. Recovery is the usual outcome without recurrences.