Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy

References

Citations

1. American Psychiatric Association (2000). Factitious disorder by proxy. In Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th ed., text rev., pp. 781–783. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.

Other Works Consulted

• Johnson CF (2007). Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSBP) section of Abuse and neglect of children. In RM Kliegman et al., eds., Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 18th ed., pp. 182–184. Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier.

• McDermott BE (2008). Factitious disorder by proxy section of Factitious disorder and malingering. In RE Hales et al., eds., The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychiatry, 5th ed., pp. 649–652. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing.

• Wang D, et al. (2005). Factitious disorders. In BJ Sadock et al., eds., Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 8th ed., vol. 1, pp. 1829–1843. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.

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