Dromomania, also travelling fugue, is an uncontrollable psychological urge to wander. People with this condition spontaneously depart from their routine, travel long distances and take up different identities and occupations. Months may pass before they return to their former identities. The term comes from the Greek: dromos (running) and mania (insanity). The most famous case was that of Jean-Albert Dadas, a Bordeaux gas-fitter.

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  • Dromomania, also travelling fugue, is an uncontrollable psychological urge to wander. People with this condition spontaneously depart from their routine, travel long distances and take up different identities and occupations. Months may pass before they return to their former identities. The term comes from the Greek: dromos (running) and mania (insanity). The most famous case was that of Jean-Albert Dadas, a Bordeaux gas-fitter. Dadas would suddenly set out on foot and reach cities as far away as Prague, Vienna or Moscow with no memory of his travels. A medical student, Philippe Tissie, wrote about Dadas in his doctoral dissertation in 1887. Jean-Martin Charcot presented a similar case he called automatisme ambulatoire - French for "ambulatory automatism" or "walking around without being in control of one's own actions. " Only a handful of cases of such behaviour have been documented, nearly all in France in the late nineteenth century. On the other hand, dromomania in wider sense (e.g. spontaneous change of location undertaken due to dysphoria) can be characteristic of other mental disorders, e.g. Borderline personality disorder. More generally, the term is sometimes used to describe people who have a strong emotional or even physical need to be constantly traveling and experiencing new places, often at the expense of their normal family, work, and social lives.
  • La dromomanie est une impulsion irrésistible à marcher ou à courir. C'est un véritable automatisme ambulatoire. Dans certaines biographies concernant Gérard de Nerval, on parle de dromomanie pour ses très nombreux déplacements, qui n'était en fait qu'une recherche éperdue de sa mère. La fugue dissociative est une forme de dromomanie.
  • La Dromomania è la tendenza nevrotica ossessiva a camminare senza una meta precisa e con fretta eccessiva. Presente in alcuni soggetti anoressici e/o schizofrenici. Il dromomane, in buona sostanza, vede nel camminare un modo per liberare la propria mente da tutti i pensieri che lo affliggono, egli spesso rinuncia a molte cose per perseguire la sua mania e tende a vivere una vita isolata.
  • Дромома́ния, пориома́ния, вагабонда́ж — импульсивное влечение к перемене мест. Под дромоманией принято понимать влечение к побегам из дома, скитанию и перемене мест, наблюдается при различных психических заболеваниях.
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  • Dromomania, also travelling fugue, is an uncontrollable psychological urge to wander. People with this condition spontaneously depart from their routine, travel long distances and take up different identities and occupations. Months may pass before they return to their former identities. The term comes from the Greek: dromos (running) and mania (insanity). The most famous case was that of Jean-Albert Dadas, a Bordeaux gas-fitter.
  • La dromomanie est une impulsion irrésistible à marcher ou à courir. C'est un véritable automatisme ambulatoire. Dans certaines biographies concernant Gérard de Nerval, on parle de dromomanie pour ses très nombreux déplacements, qui n'était en fait qu'une recherche éperdue de sa mère. La fugue dissociative est une forme de dromomanie.
  • La Dromomania è la tendenza nevrotica ossessiva a camminare senza una meta precisa e con fretta eccessiva. Presente in alcuni soggetti anoressici e/o schizofrenici. Il dromomane, in buona sostanza, vede nel camminare un modo per liberare la propria mente da tutti i pensieri che lo affliggono, egli spesso rinuncia a molte cose per perseguire la sua mania e tende a vivere una vita isolata.
  • Дромома́ния, пориома́ния, вагабонда́ж — импульсивное влечение к перемене мест. Под дромоманией принято понимать влечение к побегам из дома, скитанию и перемене мест, наблюдается при различных психических заболеваниях.
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  • Dromomania
  • Dromomanie
  • Dromomania
  • Дромомания
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