Development of Chest Pain in Munchausen's Syndrome

Münchhausen Syndromes and Factitious Diseases

“…During the Oedipal phase, the disso ciated symbiotic region in the body self may become a symbiotic-incestuous region as a consequence. The splitting off of the sym 14 Plassmann Münchhausen Syndromes and Factitious Diseases biotic invasive-incestuous impulses takes place via a 'projection into corporality' [64]. The invasive abusive act seems to be per formed 'on the body by the body', e.g.…”

“…They invest themselves with aliases, fabricated medical histories and false biographies which are de signed to arouse the doctor's interest and fas cination. They pretend to be war veterans, former concentration camp inmates or per sons suffering from the rarest diseases [12][13][14][15][16][17]. They submit to all medical procedures and examinations with an 'almost unbelieva ble tolerance for uncomfortable medical pro cedures' [9]: they are.…”

Hospital and Operation Addiction: (Munchausen Syndrome)

“…Prolonged observation of these and other cases shows that this classification is incomplete. Cutaneous and cardiac types have been described (Chapman 1957 ; Peyman 1960) and another group repeatedly enter hospitals, having ingested open safety pins or other foreign bodies, and thereby obtaining surgery. Most of them exhibit several symptomatologies on different occasions (mixed and polysymptomatic types).…”