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Medical Deception: Understanding Munchausen Syndrome/Factitious Disorder, with Marc Feldman, MD, and Janet Cahill, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

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The Role of Deliberate Deception in Addiction

K Hill: By definition, an individual who meets the criteria for factitious disorder is doing this on purpose. She says up to a third of abusive moms in much has a bi proxy cases have a personal history of feigning illness in themselves. "They know what they're doing," she says; there's often considerable planning involved.

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