Fictitious Disorder

Factitious Disorder by Proxy

• = Munchausen‟s By Proxy
• Criteria:
  • Intentional production or feigning of physical or psychological signs or symptoms in another person under the individual‟s care
  • Motivation is to assume the sick role by proxy
  • No external incentives for the behaviour (economic gain, avoiding legal responsibility)

• Warning signs: child aged 15 months to 6 years, baffling multisystem symptoms, taken to lots of health care providers, over attached parent, no symptoms when parent absent, strange poisonings, reported seizures