Talk:Dromomania

First Cases Dissociative Fugue
While Hacking does include information on this Dudas was a clerk and part time gas pipe-fitter. All the victims were clerks, artisans, and small shop owners. Today the victims are college students. They would qualify for the description knowledge worker.

Hacking blamed ecological and sociological niches. That is the current belief in psychology.

In the 1960's designers and psychologists accidentally discovered a conflict of physiology when it caused mental breaks for knowledge workers using the first production models of movable close-spaced office workstations.

Herman Miller Inc. introduced the Action Office 1 in 1964 but modified it to the Action Office System by 1968. They added vision blocking panels and created the Cubicle.

The victims of Dissociative Fugue in the 1800's had jobs that would have caused exposure to Subliminal Distraction. There was no one to discover why those clerks and shop owners were victims of Fugue.

They had the same mental breaks discovered in the 1960's.

http://visionandpsychosis.net/Dissociative_Fugue-Cases.htm

L K Tucker 68.223.110.98 02:03, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Pop culture example
Forrest Gump comes to mind. — Chameleon 05:19, 21 April 2008 (UTC)