The feigning of disabling illness for compensation at the direction or pressure by others, which is called malingering by proxy (MBP), has been the subject of several spirited articles. Chafetz and Prentkowski (2011) suggested that MBP has the potential for real harm to the child. In a poster at the AACN scientific session in 2011, Chafetz and Binder (2011) pursued a case of MBP that showed the...

BACKGROUND Delusional parasitosis (DP) is an uncommon psychiatric disorder. Patients suffering from this disorder have the fixed false belief of being infested by a parasite. Because of this condition, patients mainly consult with dermatologists or general practitioners. They are often reluctant to see a psychiatrist and to take treatment with antipsychotics because of their belief. The followi...

BACKGROUND The evidence base for the efficacy of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for treating body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is weak. AIMS To determine whether CBT is more effective than anxiety management (AM) in an outpatient setting. METHOD This was a single-blind stratified parallel-group randomised controlled trial. The primary endpoint was at 12 weeks, and the Yale-Brown Obsessive C...

The Bergman projection on a general bounded, smooth pseudoconvex domain in two complex variables need not be globally regular, that is, need not preserve the class of all functions that are smooth up to the boundary. In this article the construction of the worm domains is reviewed, with emphasis on those features relevant to their role as counterexamples to global regularity. Prior results, and...

Background: Delusional syndromes may appear in different psychiatric disorders as schizophrenia, dementia or other psycho-organic syndromes. While single delusional phenomena are rather common, combined syndromes of delusional symptoms rarely occur. Samplings and methods: The authors present a case including different delusional misidentification syndromes and other delusional phenomena in one ...

The published literature on olfactory reference syndrome (ORS) spans more than a century and provides consistent descriptions of its clinical features. The core symptom is preoccupation with the belief that one emits a foul or offensive body odor, which is not perceived by others. This syndrome is associated with substantial distress and disability. DSM-IV and ICD-10 do not explicitly mention O...

Introduction The cerebellum has been implicated in cognitive, affective and motor functions, including emotion regulation, executive control sensorimotor processing. In schizophrenia, cerebellar dysfunction associated with treatment resistance clinical features. However, few studies have focused on delusional disorder (DD). Objectives Our main purpose was to review the evidence available abnorm...