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Munchausen syndrome: Playing sick or sick player

Author(s) -

Jyoti Prakash,

RC Das,

Kalpana Srivastava,

Priyadarshee Patra,

SA Khan,

R Shashikumar

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

industrial psychiatry journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 0976-2795

pISSN - 0972-6748

DOI - 10.4103/0972-6748.144975

Subject(s) - munchausen syndrome , sick child , sick role , factitious disorder , pathological , collateral , emptiness , clinical practice , dimension (graph theory) , psychology , lying , medicine , psychiatry , pediatrics , medline , child abuse , medical emergency , human factors and ergonomics , poison control , family medicine , pathology , epistemology , philosophy , business , mathematics , law , political science , radiology , finance , pure mathematics

Munchausen syndrome is rare factitious disorder which entails frequent hospitalization, pathological lying and intentional production of symptoms for sick role. Management requires collateral history taking, sound clinical approach, exclusion of organicity and addressing psychological issues. A case which presented with unusual symptoms of similar dimension is discussed here. The case brings out finer nuances in evaluation and management of this entity.

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