Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy: Issues in Diagnosis and Treatment

by Alex V. Levin and Mary S. Sheridan

Book Overview

Munchausen syndrome by proxy is the deliberate creation or false reporting of illness in a child by a caretaker for the mere purpose of attracting attention. The authors examine the causes, manifestations and consequences of this little known and sometimes deadly form of child abuse

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0029186064
• ISBN13: 9780029186060
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Not based on profiling

As the co-editor of this book, I can attest to the fact that it is NOT based on profiling, but on solid clinical experience. Of course evidence, not profiles should be used to determine guilt or innocence. Dr. Roy Meadow, like many of those who tell the truth about this form of child abuse, has been accused of many things, but not "discredited." The issues of whether MBP is an "official" diagnosis, how it is defined, whether it exists "scientifically," and who has "accepted" it, are frequently used to distract from the central question: has a caregiver abused a child by creating a problem or the appearance of a problem. Courts throughout the US and abroad have found this abuse to exist in hundreds of cases.