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  • I know some of you have heard about, MUNCHAUSEN BY PROXY its not a mental disorder,90\% of cases of Munchausen by Proxy, the mother is the abuser.

    Blogger News Network 2009

  • … Some psychiatrists have started using the term Munchausen by Internet MBI to describe this behaviour.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Michael Kesterton 2011

  • Yeah, his more conventional work with 12 Monkeys & Brothers Grimm were good, but there's a depth to those wild trips in Munchausen, Brazil and Fear & Loathing where on first viewing I found myself dizzy and scared: Pretty much confused to hell over what I had just seen.

    Teaser Trailer: Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | /Film 2008

  • And there ` s a syndrome called Munchausen by proxy, which women kill their children.

    CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2006 2006

  • The tales told in this book were so extravagant that the name Munchausen is often applied to boasters.

    The Elson Readers, Book 5 Christine M. Keck

  • "It's called Munchausen syndrome by proxy, named after a German count who got off by inflicting pain on himself."

    A Girl's Legs Stirring The Air 2010

  • He might have what Nathan Bennett, a professor at Georgia Tech's College of Management in Atlanta, calls Munchausen at work syndrome.

    Informed Reader 2007

  • Police say Shakhov suffers from a rare psychological disorder called Munchausen by Proxy.

    CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2007 2007

  • UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice-over): The state says the woman once honored by Nancy Reagan at the White House for her work with children suffers from a bizarre mental disorder called Munchausen-by-proxy syndrome.

    CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2007 2007

  • This is the office's equivalent to the psychological disorder known as Munchausen by proxy, in which someone induces or fabricates an illness in someone close to them in order to attract attention.

    Informed Reader 2007

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