April is National Child Abuse Awareness Month, and it got me wondering how aware practitioners are of atypical child abuse. I recently came across the mere second clear incident of it in my 20-year ...

Blanchard received a 10-year sentence after being convincted along with then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn of murdering her mother Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, a case that made national headlines and ...

Disclosure: Marc D. Feldman, MD, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships in addition to his employment. Disclosure: Ilene D. Miner, MSW, LCSW-R, has disclosed no relevant financial ...

Imagine faking an illness so well that even doctors are convinced. That is the essence of factitious disorder, which is also known as Munchausen syndrome. It's all about fabricating symptoms or even ...

Andrea Dunlop’s reasons for creating a podcast on Munchausen syndrome by proxy are both educational and personal. Dunlop, who lives in Seattle, wanted to “get into the humanity” of perpetrators of ...

Seattle-based author Andrea Dunlop created a podcast that caught our ear recently. "Nobody Should Believe Me" explores the psychological condition Munchausen by proxy. Dunlop talked to KUOW’s Kim ...

Gypsy Rose Blanchard was reportedly released from prison Thursday morning after pleading guilty in 2016 to second-degree murder of her mother, who throughout Blanchard’s childhood fooled her and her ...

Gypsy Rose Blanchard is a free woman. The child abuse victim who in 2016 was sentenced for her involvement in her mother's murder was released from Chillicothe Correctional Center in Chillicothe, ...