Attachment representations in mothers with abnormal illness behaviour by proxy
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Attachment representations in mothers with abnormal illness behaviour by proxy.
BACKGROUND Abnormal illness behaviour by proxy (also known as factitious illness by proxy or Munchhausen syndrome by proxy) is a type of child maltreatment, the origins of which are poorly understood. AIMS To describe attachment representations in a cohort of mothers demonstrating abnormal illness behaviour by proxy. METHOD Sixty-seven mothers who had shown this behaviour took part in a sem...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.187.4.328