Factitious schizophrenia

Factitious disorder is a challenging phenomenon in clinical practice. An inconsistent clinical picture and the presence of symptoms that do not respond to the seemingly appropriate treatment should alert the clinician about the possibility of such a diagnosis. A case of factitious psychological symp...

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Autores principales: Grover, Sandeep, Kumar, Suresh, Mattoo, Surendra Kumar, Painuly, Nitesh Prakash, Bhateja, Gaurav, Kaur, Rajinder
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2005
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2919796/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20814463
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.55944
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author Grover, Sandeep
Kumar, Suresh
Mattoo, Surendra Kumar
Painuly, Nitesh Prakash
Bhateja, Gaurav
Kaur, Rajinder
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Kumar, Suresh
Mattoo, Surendra Kumar
Painuly, Nitesh Prakash
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description Factitious disorder is a challenging phenomenon in clinical practice. An inconsistent clinical picture and the presence of symptoms that do not respond to the seemingly appropriate treatment should alert the clinician about the possibility of such a diagnosis. A case of factitious psychological symptoms suggestive of schizophrenia is reported, and the issues of diagnosis and management are discussed in the light of the available literature.
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spelling pubmed-29197962010-09-02 Factitious schizophrenia Grover, Sandeep Kumar, Suresh Mattoo, Surendra Kumar Painuly, Nitesh Prakash Bhateja, Gaurav Kaur, Rajinder Indian J Psychiatry Case Report Factitious disorder is a challenging phenomenon in clinical practice. An inconsistent clinical picture and the presence of symptoms that do not respond to the seemingly appropriate treatment should alert the clinician about the possibility of such a diagnosis. A case of factitious psychological symptoms suggestive of schizophrenia is reported, and the issues of diagnosis and management are discussed in the light of the available literature. Medknow Publications 2005 /pmc/articles/PMC2919796/ /pubmed/20814463 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.55944 Text en © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Grover, Sandeep
Kumar, Suresh
Mattoo, Surendra Kumar
Painuly, Nitesh Prakash
Bhateja, Gaurav
Kaur, Rajinder
Factitious schizophrenia
title Factitious schizophrenia
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title_fullStr Factitious schizophrenia
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title_short Factitious schizophrenia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2919796/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.55944
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