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  • Feigned psychosis - a case of factitious disorder

  • Peter Buckley, Aisling Campbell
  • Journal:
    Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine / Volume 8 / Issue 1 / March 1991
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    13 June 2014, pp. 48-49
    Print publication:
    March 1991

  • A number of psychiatric syndromes are characterised by the conscious or unconscious production of factitious symptoms. These include Munchausen Syndrome, the Ganser Syndrome and malingering. Here we describe a patient who rapidly changed her symptomatology according to material from her environment. Her presentation does not meet criteria for any of the above syndromes, but is best described as a factitious disorder (DSM-III-R). This case provides a framework for discussion of the validity of this concept.