Calvin went on a 6-month-long teaching trip to China. After a few weeks in Beijing, he awoke not knowing who he was or where he was from. Calvin's experience is BEST described as dissociative ______.

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Calvin's experience is consistent with dissociative fugue, which involves a person forgetting their identity and past, and often entails sudden travel or wandering. Amnesia involves memory loss, but not necessarily a loss of identity or travel. Anxiety and identity disorder do not fit with the symptomatology described in the scenario.

Calvin Went on a 6-Month-Long Teaching Trip to China