title: Recovery from chronic factitious disorder (Munchausen's syndrome): a personal account.
abstract: This case report provides an account by a patient (with permission) of chronic factitious disorder and the factors that led to recovery. Such accounts are extremely rare in the literature. This account also throws into sharp focus current controversies in the classification of factitious disorders.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychological Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK.
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bass
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000150:complications / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009110:Munchausen Syndrome / Q000150:complications / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult