Psychological medicine
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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