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Patient or Pretender: Inside the Strange World of Factitious Disorders
Patient or Pretender Inside the Strange World of Factitious Disorders
Author: Marc D. Feldman, Charles V. Ford, Toni Reinhold
Recounts the case histories of factitious disorder patients who make themselves ill as a way of gaining emotional fulfillment and recognition. They take playing sick to pathological extremes, profoundly affecting their lives as well as the lives of those who support them. In these pages, readers will find a group of cases so bizarre that they ch...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780471120131
ISBN-10: 0471120138
Publication Date: 3/1995
Pages: 228
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Publisher: John Wiley Sons Inc
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Wonderful true stories of people who search for emotional fulfillment by making themselves ill...a serious game of "playing" sick.


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