ambulatory automatism

ambulatory automatism
"Ambulatory automatism" describes the pathological impulse to purposeless and irresponsible wanderings from place to place often characteristic of patients suffering from loss of memory with dissociation of personality.

Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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