Munchausen’s By Proxy Psychotherapy Treatment Can Help
Munchausen syndrome by proxy is a form of
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
This syndrome almost always involves a mother abusing her child by seeking unneeded medical attention for the child. It is rare and poorly understood. The cause is unknown.
The mother may fake symptoms of illness in her child by adding blood to the child's urine or stool, withholding food, falsifying fevers, secretly giving...
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