Patient or Pretender
Inside the Strange World of Factitious Disorders
Recounts the case histories of factitious disorder patients who make themselves ill as a way of gaining emotional fulfillment and recognition. They take playing sick to pathological extremes, profoundly affecting their lives as well as the lives of those who support them. In these pages, readers will find a group of cases so bizarre that they challenge the imagination and, at times, medical knowledge.
9780471580805
Book, Hardcover
Patient or Pretender: Inside the Strange World of Factitious Disorders
- Author: Marc D Feldman, Charles V Ford
Wiley, 1993
228
English
9.26 x 6.23 x 0.93 inches, 1.04 pounds
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