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.
