Patient or Pretender: Inside the Strange World of Factitious Disorders - Brossura

Feldman, Marc D., M.D.; Ford, Charles V.; Reinhold, Toni

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0471120138 ISBN 13: 9780471120131

Casa editrice: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1995

Riassunto

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 challenge the imagination and, at times, medical knowledge.

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L'autore:

Marc D. Feldman, M.D., is a practicing psychiatrist and Medical Director of the University of Alabama Center for Psychiatric Medicine in Birmingham, and a well-known expert on factitious disorders.

Charles V. Ford, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Alabama's School of Medicine and Director of the University of Alabama Neuropsychiatry Clinic in Birmingham. He is an acknowledged expert on factitious psychosomatic disorders.

Toni Reinhold is an award-winning journalist and author. Her works include Untamed, the as-told-to autobiography of Gunther Gebel-Williams.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0471120138
• ISBN 13: 9780471120131
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240