Munchhausen syndrome by proxy by children and teenagers growing, reaching adulthood with disharmonic features of personality, even psychic disturbances/troubles or mental disorders

Title : Munchhausen syndrome by proxy by children and teenagers growing, reaching adulthood with disharmonic features of personality, even psychic disturbances/troubles or mental disorders

Abstract:

Background: Munchausen's syndrome is described by Dieulafoy in 1908 but, this factice Troubles by proxy caused by people in charge of the young, usually mothers are more known only particularly since 2002, after the works of Meadows, Rosenberg, De Becker (1) in 2006. We will try to highlight his explicitation/clarification in the changing society.

Methods: Working during 40 years in the frame of hospitals, in charge of different places of cares: As Chief of adults then children and adolescents psychiatric Services in C.H.U and also as counsellor in medico-psychologique institutional 's places – we have had to receive mothers, by whom, we discerned, during our clinical approach, the reality of that morbid attitude to create factice deleterious disorders by the young ones inside their family or being close during educational times. That kind of comportment due to their imaginary may drive children or teenagers to psychic organizations or even disorders later. As pedo-psychiatrist, we have to discern such type of troubles and to help and take preventive care and therapeutical means and to meet such cases resulting of false interrelationships. As Psychiatric Expert of Appeal's and also Cassation's Courts, we have had the opportunity to make expert examinations.

Results: All was depending of psychogenetic background of the child and more other, the type of disguised malevolence and of the deep intentionality and also, if a medical add had happen. The age where these factice troubles were suicidal and the duration and the resilience's capacities and of the level of ability of the young victims.

Biography:

Dr. Hugues Scharbach is a distinguished Neuropsychiatrist and National Expert (honorary) in pharmacotherapy, with an extensive background in clinical practice, academic teaching, and international research. He began his academic career as an assistant in neuroanatomy under Professor P. Delmas at the New Medical Faculty, Rue des Saints-Pères in Paris, and later served as an invited Professor of Physiology at the University of Bujumbura (1970–71) through the French Foreign Office. Upon returning to France, he held the position of Chef de Travaux Délégué in Physiology at the Paris 6 Faculty of Medicine. Clinically, he served as Psychiatre des Hôpitaux and led the Adult Psychiatry Service at Nantes CHRU before founding and directing the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service at the same hospital. Dr. Scharbach has taught extensively as Director of Clinical Psychiatry and has delivered lectures and presentations across France, Germany, Jordan, and Brazil. A Co-Keynote Speaker at the WHO Conference in Athens on Bipolar Spectrum Disorders (BSD), his contributions include significant publications such as the 1983 Congress Report of the Société de Psychiatrie et Neurologie de Langue Française in Poitiers. He has also been involved in advanced pharmacological research, notably on rubidium with Professor P.H. Loo, and has contributed to multiple Phase IV clinical trials.