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Colorful lying is a central feature of Munchausen's, a syndrome well characterized despite an imperfect understanding of its psychiatric aspects. Reported otolaryngologic presentations are infrequent. A classic case is described in detail. A new name, "Otolaryngologica Prevarica," is proposed to maintain awareness of the entity in the specialty. The psychodynamics and the relation to sadomasochism, hysteria and malingering are discussed.

We conducted the first study of the mental health impact on a group of women displaced by the 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots, a series of ethnoreligious violent attacks within India, and found a majority screened positive for either depression or PTSD due to the trauma sustained, yet had received limited, if any, mental health care since the riots.

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