Munchausen's syndrome

British  

noun

1. a mental disorder in which a patient feigns illness to obtain hospital treatment

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Example Sentences

His father, Dr. Richard Asher, was a pioneering medical theorist, who first identified and named Munchausen’s Syndrome.

From New York Times

In 1951, British physician Richard Asher described three cases of what he called Munchausen’s syndrome — named after a fictional character who told absurd tall tales about his many adventures — in the Lancet.

From Washington Post

This is one of those strange concepts like Munchausen’s syndrome, where you make yourself sick to get people to notice you.

From Literature

I suffered a version of this so-called Medical Student Syndrome when I was taking my psychopathology courses: looking at all the symptoms of all the mental disorders listed in the American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic bible, the DSM-IV, it was clear that not only was I paranoid schizophrenic, but all of my close friends and family most certainly had PTSD, OCD, borderline personality disorder or Munchausen's syndrome.

From The Guardian

Dr Southall is viewed as an expert in Munchausen's syndrome by proxy, a condition which means parents deliberately induce or fabricate illnesses in their children to get attention for themselves.

From BBC