A young man was picked up by police after he was found wandering along an interstate 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 state 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 have dissociative fugue, as he was found wandering in a confused state with no memory of his identity or past. Dissociative identity disorder involves the presence of multiple distinct identities within an individual, dissociative amnesia involves the inability to recall important personal information, and depersonalization disorder involves a persistent feeling of detachment or being outside of oneself. None of these disorders fully capture the presentation of the man in this scenario.

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