[Munchausen syndrome. Case report of a "patient" above suspicion].
The authors, using a clinical case, tried to explain the Munchhausen syndrome from a psychopathological point of view and especially argued why it is so different from hysteria. They made the hypothesis that the Munchhausen syndrome corresponded to a perverted discourse (in a sense of psychoanalytical terminology) which would set in place the patient-doctor relationship in a perverted way.
Service de Psychiatrie II, Hôpital civil, Strasbourg.
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D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007046:Hysteria / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009110:Munchausen Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory
Le syndrome de Munchhausen. Enquête sur un "malade" au-dessus de tout soupçon.