Forensic Psychology Terms

noun a person who intentionally sets fire to property

• The arsonist was apprehended by the police and will face charges for setting fire to the building.
• Did you hear about the arsonist who got caught red-handed by the authorities?
• That arsonist is a real firebug, always causing trouble.
• The gossip spread like wildfire, fueled by the arsonist's malicious lies.

noun a technique that combines hypnosis with the use of drugs to induce a trance-like state

• Narcohypnosis is a controversial technique that combines hypnosis with the use of drugs to induce a trance-like state.
• I heard they tried narcohypnosis on that patient to help with their anxiety.
• Some people think narcohypnosis is just a fancy way of getting high.
• The politician's smooth talking had a narcohypnotic effect on the audience, leaving them mesmerized.

noun fugue: a state or period of loss of awareness of one's identity, often coupled with flight from one's usual environment

• The patient experienced a dissociative fugue, during which they traveled to a different city without any recollection of their identity.
• My friend went through a dissociative fugue and ended up in a town three hours away from home!
• I heard she had a total dissociative fugue and woke up in a random place with no idea how she got there.
• Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dissociative fugue, lost in my own thoughts and disconnected from reality.