Το σύνδρομο Μυνχάουζεν στην Ιατρική

Baron Munchausen is known to many as the hero of a book by Gottfried August Bürger, which describes the hero's incredible narratives about war and not only his adventures, which are literally unbelievable! He is thought to be a real-life German army officer in the 18th century who was indeed a great liar. In 1951, 150 years after his death, Dr. Richard Asher, for the first time in an article in the Lancet, referred to a pathological psychosomatic condition and defined it as "Munchausen syndrome", referring to patients who consciously pretend to have a disease. This term has been criticized as inaccurate and various others have been suggested from time to time, but in the end it was this one that has survived and recorded in medical terminology until today.The Munchausen Syndrome in Medicin