A doctor enters her office and greets her patient, "Good morning Ted." The patient answers in an unfamiliar voice, "Ted has gone away!" The doctor asks "Would you like to tell me your name?" "I'm Ernie, and I don't like you!" her patient replies. This patient has generalized amnesia. dissociative identity disorder. dissociative fugue. an attitude disorder.

The correct answer is dissociative fugue.<br /><br />Dissociative fugue is a type of dissociative disorder characterized by sudden, unexpected travel away from one's home or place of work, accompanied by an inability to recall some or all of one's past. In this case, the patient, Ted, has traveled away and is unable to recognize the doctor, indicating a dissociative fugue state.