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Munchausen Syndrome

Motives and the Relation to Deliberate Self-Harm

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

S. R. Humphries
S. R. Humphries*
Affiliation:
Royal Liverpool Hospital currently Registrar in Psychiatry, Rainhill and Broadgreen Hospitals, Liverpool
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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.

Type
Brief Reports
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 152 , Issue 3 , March 1988 , pp. 416 - 417
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1988 

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