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Dissociative fugue and amnesia[]

I'm not sure whether this belongs on a wiki page that isn't a talk page, but what Jane had is actually closer to dissociative amnesia than dissociative fugue. Dissociative amnesia and dissociative fugue are very similar, with the primary difference being that a fugue involves traveling and having no memory of it. Jane didn't do any traveling, so it would be more accurate to call it dissociative amnesia. Perhaps the writers thought "Fugue in Red" was better than "Amnesia in Red"? I would be surprised if they didn't know about their mistake, as even an introductory psychology course includes the differences between the dissociative disorders.

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