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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread What's that word? (it is a syndrome) #4540 07/27/2000 5:04 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 1 eoligarry stranger eoligarry stranger Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 1 I'll be very grateful to anyone who can tell me what this word is, as I've been trying to figure it out for over a year now. It is the name of a syndrome where a mother keeps her children sickly and malnourished because she relishes the attention she gets from well-wishers. The lady towards the end of the movie Sixth Sense (the one that kills her daughter by poisoning her soup and is unmasked when the daughter's ghost tells the little boy about it) has this syndrome. I'm pretty sure the name of the syndrome is German. The recent A Word A Day email "Munchausen Syndrome" reminded me of it. thank you! Cory coryf@rocketmail.com Please email me if you know it. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: What's that word? (it is a syndrome) #4541 07/28/2000 4:40 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass I had no clue as to the answer to this so I resorted to my usual search tricks with Google.com. what I found was that while Munchausen Syndrome is a child making himself sick to gain attention, when an individual makes another person sick in order to accrue the same gains--but this time vicariously--it is called Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. weird... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: What's that word? (it is a syndrome) #4542 07/28/2000 11:21 AM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC >Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. If any of you are into sort of gruesome mystery stories, Patricia Cornwell wrote one of her forensic medicine novels about Munchausen's by proxy. Yes, weird. We've had three or four cases of it here in Colorado in the last year or so. In one of them, a hospital suspected there was a problem with one of their child patients and put in a surveillance camera. They caught the mother holding a pillow over her own child's face and partially smothering her. TEd Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: What's that word? (it is a syndrome) #4543 07/30/2000 9:36 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta I first heard about this in a detective story by Jonathan Kellerman called "Devil's Waltz". Bingley Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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