title: [Therapeutic approach to a case of simulated disorder with psychiatric symptoms].
abstract: The case of a 38-year-old female inpatient with the diagnosis of factitious disorder with psychological symptoms--a presentation rarely reported in the psychiatric literature--is presented with special respect to her personality traits. On the basis of her biographical history a therapeutic approach was possible which tried to understand the symbolic value of the histrionic patient's symptoms. We regarded the manifestation of psychological symptoms as an attempt to express conflicts verbally and as an offer of a more mature form of communication in comparison to the former, autodestructive physical syndromes.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatrische Klinik, Medizinischen Fakultät, RWTH Aachen.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Herpertz
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Erkwoh
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005162:Factitious Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006677:Histrionic Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D009110:Munchausen Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy
vernacular_title: Therapeutische Begegnung mit einem Fall von vorgetäuschter Störung mit psychischen Symptomen.