Rachel Aviv
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 6 Jul
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Fresh Air · Writer Rachel Aviv explores the complexity of the mother-daughter bond · 6 Jul 2026
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And her roommates realized she'd been gone forever.
for five days and they called the police and the police began searching for her throughout Manhattan and no one could find her.
And it became a kind of New York City news story where everyone was searching for this young teacher.
And after three weeks, she surfaced in the water of the Hudson River and she had no memory of what she'd been doing or where she was or even no understanding that three weeks had passed.
She was eventually diagnosed with disassociative fugue, which is a really rare species of disassociation where people kind of embark on these long journeys and lose access to their personal history.
And sometimes they kind of emerge after months or years and don't know why.
They have sort of assumed a new name and a new job and a new home.
And
Over the course of 10 years, she had two more fugues in which she disappeared.
I started writing about her when she had disappeared for the third time, and that was in St.
Thomas.
And after that third fugue, she was never found.
Yeah, and I think it's really compromised by that era in the 80s and the 90s in which people were recovering memories of abuse.
And later it was sort of understood that these memories were often unreliable.
And that it was a sort of moment of hysteria.
And I think disassociation in general, like, got a bad reputation because of that.
And the field wasn't really able to kind of preserve the aspects of disassociation that were...
sort of enduring and didn't relate to that particular cultural moment.
That was sort of disassociation manifesting as this almost like cultural syndrome.
But disassociation has always existed and been observed.
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