Dromomania

Dromomania was a historical psychiatric diagnosis whose primary symptom was uncontrollable urge to walk or wander.[1] Dromomania has also been referred to as traveling fugue.[2] Non-clinically, the term has come to be used to describe a desire for frequent traveling or wanderlust.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ Have 2000.
  2. ^ Hacking, Ian (September 1996). "Les Aliénés voyageurs: how fugue became a medical entity". History of Psychiatry. 7 (27): 425–449. doi:10.1177/0957154X9600702705. ISSN 0957-154X. PMID 11618352. S2CID 38740209.
  3. ^ Smith 2013, p. 9,20-23.
  4. ^ Ellison 2003, p. 99.
  5. ^ Lubran 1991, p. 57.