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Old Feb 02, 2014, 02:33 AM
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Originally Posted by amandalouise View Post
my opinion is here there is no right or wrong, everyone posts according to what their own location, culture, treatment providers go by.
mmm. I agree to a certain extent.
That doesn't mean there is no right or wrong, though. I mean there are still defined criteria [like you just posted, for example] and standard practices and treatments. So there is an actual definition of terminology.

While Spain, for example, may use both the ICD and the DSM [and actually in some cases so does the US] it doesn't mean they don't adhere to each diagnostic system's definition of dissociative fugue... which are very similar into the DSMIVTR at least.

I guess I'm just saying it's not helpful to muddy things with vague terminology that may or may not be accurate if it isn't in very common usage if we are discussing specifics of a mental health issue for discussion sake. I get that like... it's for casual knowledge, but it's still for knowledge, ya know?

A small outlier group of treatment providers in NY may conflate stendhal with dissociative fugue or simply subsume any syndrome or state that has dissociative elements under the whole "dissociative spectrum"... but that's not really common practice?

I don't know, just don't find it helpful to suggest that it is- based on a small sample size not the standard definitions commonly used. I do think it is interesting and relevant to know that there are some providers who chose to use other definitions, etc. however.