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Factitious Disorders

Disease of mental health where symptoms are deliberately produced, feigned or exaggerated in order to falsely demonstrate the presence of an illness

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    Feigned insanity, how most usually simulated, and how best detected : an essay to which was awarded the gold medal in the class of medical jurisprudence in the University of Edinburgh, July, 1844 / by Henry Wentworth Acland.

    Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900. | Date: 1844
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    Patient or pretender : inside the strange world of factitious disorders / Marc D. Feldman, Charles V. Ford, with Toni Reinhold.

    Feldman, Marc D., 1958- | Date: [1994], ©1994
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    The spectrum of factitious disorders / edited by Marc D. Feldman and Stuart J. Eisendrath.

    | Date: [1996], ©1996
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    A statement of facts, relative to the supposed abstinence of Ann Moore, of Tutbury, Staffordshire: and a narrative of the circumstances which led to the recent detection of the imposture: to which is subjoined an appendix, containing medical and other papers, illustrative of the statement / compiled and published at the request of the committee, formed for the investigation of the case.

    Richmond, Legh, 1772-1827. | Date: 1813
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    Morbi simulati et dissimulati : dissertatio inauguralis medico-forensis ... / scripsit Antonius J. Hummel.

    Hummel, Antonius J. | Date: [1843]

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