Münchausen syndrome by proxy

Hemphill et al., 1998 and Hare et al., 2000). Researchers have analyzed crimes and discovered those who suffer from posttraumatic disorder, psychosis, munchausen syndrome by proxy, schizophrenia and other mental disorders make up for about twenty percent of crimes committed. Marzuk says, "In the last decade, the evidence showing a link between violence, crime, and mental illness has mounted. It cannot be dismissed;…

Introduction Child abuse is defined in the United States as any injury, death, emotional harm or risk of serious harm to a child from a parent or caregiver (“What is”, n.d.). This abuse takes place in and outside of the home, whether it be verbal or nonverbal. No matter the situation, child abuse is illegal in all fifty states, and should be reported immediately. Abuse has many different categories. These categories consist of emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and child neglect…

Beverley Allit; a general nurse working on a pediatric ward where she injured or murdered thirteen children in her care. Despite health record checks she was still able to get a job and was later diagnosed with Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (Brykczynska, 1994). Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy is a personality disorder where the person fabricates illness to themselves. They pretend to be ill by saying they have stomach pain or physically make themselves ill by swallowing something they shouldn’t (Nhs…

Diagnoses in medicine involving deception are some of the most difficult phenomenon’s to detect: factitious disorder, malingering, Munchausen syndrome, and Munchausen by proxy. As a starting point for diagnosis and treatment, doctors rely on reported symptoms in order to accurately detect the problems with the patients. When patients give misleading information, consciously or unconsciously, doctors and physicians are unable to accurately diagnose the patient (Dyer & Feldman, 2007). This…

When a mother’s love for her child goes wrong on a whole other level can be very traumatizing to those mothers out there who are very attached to their child. This disorder is called Munchausen Syndrome by proxy, also known as Factitious Disorder or MSP, or MSBP for short. It is a Psychiatric Disorder. What it is? Is a disorder that is most common in mothers. It is also known as a child abuse disorder where the mother will make her child very ill to create attention and sympathy from health care…

In My Grandma the Poisoner, the author John Reed gives a hook to the reader right away. The beginning scene and title is an image of the Reed as a child watching his grandmother weeping in her bedroom. The scene is set up to show the reader what is going through Reed 's eyes and then moves to another scene. It starts with the house and how Reed spent most of his childhood there, the diction he uses sets the tone of a reflective acrimony, describing it as “disgusting” and shows the reader in…

Some of the major risk factors of physical abuse are alcoholism, domestic violence, drug abuse, being a single parent, lack of education and poverty (Mannheim, 2011). Bartol and Bartol (2014) stated, “alcohol is responsible for more deaths and violence than all other drugs combines (p. 501). Drug abuse and alcoholism have similar effects on a person behavior. Due to the psychological effects of excessive alcohol usage, alcohol can be extremely destructive to the individual or his or her family…

A mother suffocating her four children…a nurse poisoning fifty young children…a woman murdering her entire family…though they may sound like plotlines of the latest hit cop show, these are all examples of real-life crimes committed by female serial killers. In their book Murder Most Rare, Michael Kelleher and C.L. Kelleher define a female serial killer as “a woman who commits the act of murdering three or more individuals in separate incidents in a period of thirty days or more”. They organize…