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The British Journal of Psychiatry 152: 416-417 (1988)
© 1988 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Munchausen syndrome. Motives and the relation to deliberate self-harm

SR Humphries
Royal Liverpool Hospital.

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.


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