Question

Jay, a high school physics teacher in NYC, disappeared three days after his wife unexpectedly left him for another man. Six months later, he was discovered tending bar in Miami Beach. Calling himself Martin, he claimed to have no recollection of his past life and insisted that he had never been married. _______________________ 13. Marian and her brother were recently involved in an automobile accident. Marian was not seriously injured, but her brother was killed. Marian is unable to recall any details from the time of the accident until four days later.

Answer 1

Answer:

Jay's case is an example of dissociative fugue.

Marian's case is an example of dissociative amnesia.

Explanation:

Both dissociative fugue and amnesia are ways of coping with extremely painful events. In the first case, the person commonly wanders away from home. All of a sudden, they realize they are in a complete different place, having no recollection of how or why they got there. As for the latter, the person usually forgets everything that took place in a certain period of time surrounding a traumatic event. Dissociative amnesia takes place when the person is not physically harmed, but has experienced pain and trauma.