Question

After being passed up for a promotion and then getting into a heated argument with his son, a man disappears. He shows up two weeks later in another town with no memory of who he is or how he got there. He appears to be suffering from ______

Answer 1

Answer:

Dissociative disorder

Explanation:

Dissociative disorders refer to affections that concern disruptions or breakdowns of consciousness, perception, identity or memory. Therefore, people with dissociative disorders make use of isolation and disconnection as a defense mechanism in a pathological and compulsory manner. Thus, the man had a collapse of identity and memory caused by the argument with his son.