See also: Münchausen

The syndrome of Münchausen is a psychiatric pathology also called Pathomimie or factitious Trouble, characterized by the need to simulate a Maladie, without search for direct profit (what is different from the Simulation during which the patient seeks to obtain a benefit or an advantage because of his pled disorders).

The patients reached of this syndrome present multiples Cicatrice S of operations following hospitalizations repeated for simulated affections. They are readily quarrellers, even aggressive, if they do not obtain the desired attention. It is classified like " factitious disorder with symptoms physiques".

Etymology

The name derives from a baron de Münchhausen (Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, 1720 - 1797), to which incredible exploits written by Rudolph Erich Raspe are allotted.

In 1951, Richard Asher was the first to describe a diagram of self-mutilation, where the patients invented stories of disease. Remembering the baron de Münchausen, Asher called this state the syndrome of Münchausen. In 1977, the English pediatrician Roy Meadow described has form off child misuses in which mothers deliberately induced gold falsely reported illnesses in their children. He referred to this behavior ace Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. -->

Syndrome of Münchausen per procuration

See also: Syndrome of Münchausen per procuration

Also called Syndrome of Meadow, the Syndrome of Münchausen per procuration describes the patients bringing their children in a repetitive way to the pediatric urgencies for symptoms which they themselves caused. It would be at the origin from 8 to 20% of the unexplained sudden deaths of the infant.

Sources

• Sciences and Avenir N° 2667
• medical Dictionary of the nurse ED Masson

See too

• Syndrome of Lasthénie de Ferjol
• Mythomania
• The Medea off the modern times

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