you separate yourself from your previous identity and your memory.

你把自己从原来的身份和记忆里分离出来
Over half of people charged with homicide

超过一半被指控的杀人犯
claim to have some degree of dissociative amnesia.

声称有一定程度的解离性失忆
The problem here is that

现在的问题在于
many, many, many of those cases involve alcohol and drugs,

这些案例中大多涉及酗酒或嗑药
which can lead to some sort of alcoholic blackout.

它们都会引起某种程度的酒精黑视
Also, people could be lying.

当然人们也可能是在说谎
If you're charged with murder, it's often a reasonable thing to say,

当你被指控杀人罪时聪明的说法是
"I don't remember any of this," To just kind of--

我什么都不记得了之类的话
and--as a way to distance yourself from it.

把你和这件事拉开距离
Dissociative fugue is kind of weird and interesting.

解离性漫游症既怪异又有趣
The guy's wife leaves him for another man.

这家伙的老婆为了其他男人离开了他