Feigned Alcohol Abuse
- 1 March 1988
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 152 (3) , 418-420
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.152.3.418
Abstract
A man presenting with factitious alcohol abuse and its alleged complications is described. It is argued that chronic factitious disorders are more logically viewed as part of that spectrum of conditions where there is abnormal illness behaviour, including somatoform disorders and other related conditions, than as separate nosological or diagnostic entities.Keywords
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