Munchausen Syndrome

1 March 1988

journal article
case report
Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry

Vol. 152 (3) , 416-417
https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.152.3.416

Abstract

A case report of a 37-year-old woman with Munchausen syndrome which differs in many respects from the classical picture is described. Attempts are made to examine the motives behind the syndrome and to make a link with the common pattern of deliberate self-harm.

Keywords

MOTIVES
HARM
WOMAN
PICTURE
OLD
MUNCHAUSEN
ATTEMPTS
DELIBERATE
MADE
RESPECTS

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

The Münchausen Syndrome as a Psychiatric Condition
The British Journal of Psychiatry, 1978
MUNCHAUSEN'S SYNDROME
The Lancet, 1951