A young man was picked up by police after he was found wandering along the Trans-Canada Highway in a confused state. The man possessed no identifying information and he was unable to say who he was or where he lived. After his photograph appeared on television, a woman from an adjoining Province identified the man as her father. What form of dissociative disorder did this man appear to have?

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The man appears to be experiencing a dissociative fugue, which is a rare condition characterized by sudden, unexpected travel away from home, confusion about personal identity or assumption of a new identity, and the inability to recall one's past. The fact that he had no memory of who he was or where he came from suggests that he was experiencing dissociative amnesia as well. However, since he was found wandering along a highway with no apparent destination, it is more likely that he was experiencing a fugue state. Dissociative identity disorder involves the presence of two or more distinct personality states that alternate in controlling the individual's behavior, while depersonalization disorder involves a sense of detachment from one's own body or mental processes.

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