Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome
Subtitle: Misunderstood Child Abuse
Contributors: Teresa F. Parnell (Editor); Deborah O. Day (Editor)
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: July 30, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780803958128
Subjects: Child abuse; Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Psychotherapy; Psychopathology - General; Mental Illness; Psychology; Interpersonal Relations; Mental Health; Medical-Mental Health; Psychology & Psychiatry / Interpersonal Relations; Psychology & Psychiatry / Mental Illness; Psychology-Interpersonal Relations; Munchausen syndrome by proxy
First sentence: As a pediatrician in Leeds, England, Roy Meadow (1977) encountered two young patients with puzzling symptoms that he described in a seminal paper.