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Abstract
Disorders characterized by physical or psychological symptoms that are not real, genuine, or natural.
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- Disorders, Factitious
- Ganser Syndrome
- Pseudodementia
- Pseudopsychosis
- Syndrome, Ganser
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.
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differentiate from SOMATOFORM DISORDERS: factitious are phys or psychol sympt under voluntary control, somatoform are phys sympt linked to psychol factors but not under voluntary control
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Factitious Disorders. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D005162. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D005162
- Factitious Disorders. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factitious_disorder
- Factitious Disorders. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2686385