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Dromomania was sometimes equated with propensity to [[vagrancy]].{{sfn|Kostyunina|Valeeva|2015}}
Dromomania was sometimes equated with propensity to [[vagrancy]].{{sfn|Kostyunina|Valeeva|2015}}


During the 20th century, this diagnosis fell into disuse.{{sfn|Have|2000|pp=1}} However, since 2000 articles have appeared describing dromomania as a potential consequence of [[Alzheimer's disease]]{{sfn|Song|Kim|Lee|Kim|2017}} and [[dementia]].{{sfn|Kanemura|Kobayashi|Inafuku|Hosoda|2000|pp=27}}<!-- citing Yasumura 1997; Ishikawa; 1993 -->
During the 20th century, this diagnosis fell into disuse.{{sfn|Have|2000|pp=1}} However, since 2000 articles have appeared describing dromomania as a potential consequence of [[Alzheimer's disease]]{{sfn|Song|Kim|Lee|Kim|2017}}, [[dementia]],{{sfn|Kanemura|Kobayashi|Inafuku|Hosoda|2000|pp=27}}<!-- citing Yasumura 1997; Ishikawa; 1993 --> and [[delirium]].{{sfn|Honda|Furukawa|Nishiwaki|Fujiya|2018|p=}}


== Nonclinical usage ==
== Nonclinical usage ==
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* ''Mad Travellers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses'' by Ian Hacking ({{ISBN|1-85343-455-8}})
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Revision as of 22:14, 29 July 2018

Dromomania (from Greek dromos, meaning "running", and mania, meaning "madness") was a historical psychiatric diagnosis whose primary symptom was uncontrollable urge to walk or wander.[citation needed] It has come to be used non-clinically to describe a desire for frequent traveling or wanderlust.[1][2]

Clinical usage

Dromomania was a historical psychiatric diagnosis whose primary symptom was an irresistable urge to aimlessly wander, travel, or walk.[3][4][5] Some authors describe patients with this diagnosis as being in an "in an automatic state" as they traveled,[6] experiencing partial amnesia of the events of their journeys.[3] Other symptoms included a "loss of sense of personal identity, ... and impulses to homicide and suicide."[6]

Bioethicist Henk A. M. J. ten Have regards dromomania as equivalent to the DSM IV diagnosis of dissociative fugue and the historical diagnoses of Wandertrieb [de] (German) and automatisme ambulatoire (French).[3]

Dromomania has also been referred to as travelling fugue.[citation needed]

Dromomania was regarded as a kind of impulse control disorder similar to kleptomania or pyromania.[7][5][8]

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 Tissié, wrote about Dadas in his doctoral dissertation in 1887.[9]

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." Many cases of dromomania have been described.[3]

Dromomania was sometimes equated with propensity to vagrancy.[10]

During the 20th century, this diagnosis fell into disuse.[3] However, since 2000 articles have appeared describing dromomania as a potential consequence of Alzheimer's disease[11], dementia,[12] and delirium.[13]

Nonclinical usage

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.

Some authors have negatively referred to the high prevalence and cultural value of frequent in contemporary Western culture as hypermobility or dromomania.[14]

See also

References

  1. ^ Smith 2013, p. 9,20-23.
  2. ^ Ellison 2003, p. 99.
  3. ^ a b c d e Have 2000, pp. 1.
  4. ^ Medical dictionary, dromomania
  5. ^ a b Spirer 1949, p. 2.
  6. ^ a b Epitome 1902, p. 94.
  7. ^ Warner 1932, p. 677.
  8. ^ Epitome 1902, p. 93f.
  9. ^ Les aliénés voyageurs : essai médico-psychologique, Paris, O. Doin, 1887 ; réédité à L'Harmattan, 2005, introduction de Serge Nicolas, sous le titre Les aliénés voyageurs : Le cas Albert, Available at http://www2.biusante.parisdescartes.fr/livanc/?cote=TBOR1887x29&do=chapitre
  10. ^ Kostyunina & Valeeva 2015.
  11. ^ Song et al. 2017.
  12. ^ Kanemura et al. 2000, pp. 27.
  13. ^ Honda et al. 2018.
  14. ^ Bissell & Fuller 2011, p. 2.

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  • "An Epitome Of Current Medical Literature". British Medical Journal. 1 (2163): 93–96. 14 June 1902. JSTOR 20272544.
  • Mad Travellers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses by Ian Hacking (ISBN 1-85343-455-8)
  • Have, Henk A. M. J. ten (2000). "Medicine's reality". Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. 3 (1). Springer Nature: 1–2. doi:10.1023/a:1009981914707. ISSN 1386-7423. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Honda, Shinsaku; Furukawa, Kenichiro; Nishiwaki, Noriyuki; Fujiya, Keiichi; Omori, Hayato; Kaji, Sanae; Makuuchi, Rie; Irino, Tomoyuki; Tanizawa, Yutaka; Bando, Etsuro; Kawamura, Taiichi; Terashima, Masanori (30 May 2018). "Risk Factors for Postoperative Delirium After Gastrectomy in Gastric Cancer Patients". World Journal of Surgery. Springer Nature. doi:10.1007/s00268-018-4682-y. ISSN 0364-2313. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Kanemura, Naohiko; Kobayashi, Ryuji; Inafuku, Kae; Hosoda, Masataka; Minematsu, Akira; Sasaki, Hisato; Tanaka, Sachiko; Shirahama, Kunji; Ueda, Takehito; Kamoda, Chie; Miyamoto, Hidetaka; Maejima, Hiroshi; Yoshimura, Osamu (2000). "Analysis of Risk Factors for Falls in the Elderly with Dementia". Journal of Physical Therapy Science. 12 (1). Society of Physical Therapy Science: 27–31. doi:10.1589/jpts.12.27. ISSN 0915-5287. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
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  • Song, Hyeon Jin; Kim, Tae-Hee; Lee, Hae-Hyeog; Kim, Jun-Mo; Park, Yoo Jin; Lee, Arum; Kim, Soo Ah; Choi, Hye Ji (2017). "Cell Therapy Products in Alzheimer Disease". Journal of Menopausal Medicine. 23 (1). The Korean Society of Menopause (KAMJE). doi:10.6118/jmm.2017.23.1.1. ISSN 2288-6478. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
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