Article on Fugue in the Sydney Morning Herald

In Australia each year more than 35,000 cases of missing persons are reported, and a number of these are the result of dissociative fugues. This is why it is important to become more aware of fugue, and why it is most important that doctors and others in detention centres and prisons are able to report on what they see there, as there may be (and have been) people in fugues being heId in cases of mistaken identity, I suggest in my  comment piece on dissociative fugue ("Emotional trauma steals memories and lives") in the weekend's Sydney Morning Herald on the case of Ashely Manetta/"Sam" in Australian news recently. Although rare, cases of fugue are increasingly being reported. This is a main theme of my novel Australian Fugue: The Antipode Room, about "Ruby" art gallerist who is jailed in Newcastle, NSW, for a murder she cannot remember. 

Ruth Skilbeck