According to USA Today, among other sources, experts believe Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, had Munchausen by proxy. The mental disorder, also known as factitious disorder, involves ...

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‌Malingering is pretending to have an illness in order to get a benefit. The feigned illness can be mental or physical. Malingering is also when someone intentionally or knowingly exaggerates symptoms ...

Gypsy Rose Blanchard's mother allegedly had Munchausen by proxy, which is "a form of child abuse," Dr. James Schneider tells PEOPLE The early release of Gypsy Rose Blanchard — who was sentenced to 10 ...

April is National Child Abuse Awareness Month, and it got me wondering how aware practitioners are of atypical child abuse. I recently came across the mere second clear incident of it in my 20-year ...

The term “Munchausen syndrome” was coined in 1951 by Richard Asher, who named it after Hieronymus Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Münchhausen (also known as Baron von Munchausen), an eighteenth-century ...

Diagnosing medical conditions is not easy. Patients can have nondescript symptoms that could point to common problems as easily as rare or poorly understood ones. They can sprinkle in irrelevant ...

Gypsy Rose Blanchard is a free woman. The child abuse victim who in 2016 was sentenced for her involvement in her mother's murder was released from Chillicothe Correctional Center in Chillicothe, ...

Blanchard received a 10-year sentence after being convincted along with then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn of murdering her mother Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, a case that made national headlines and ...