Munchausen Syndrome: Difference between revisions

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

** In general, it comes up as an early diagnosis from time to time. Of course, since every single episode has the [[Lethal Diagnosis]] trope in play, we shouldn't need to tell you how many of his patients ''actually'' have Munchausen's.

* The mother in "The Masks" episode of ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' was implied have Munchausen Syndrome. She complained about how she was braving through a serious illness to visit her dying father, and many other instances in the past were implied.

 

* ''[[The Sixth Sense]]'' had the ghost of a little girl who had died after being poisoned by her mother in order to gain sympathy from outsiders. After her death, the mother turned her attentions on her little sister.

* ''[[One Missed Call]]'' has Munchausen's By Proxy as the [[Dark Secret]] of one character.

 

 

* ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' had an episode where the unsub used his manipulation over his wife's health to prove that he had control over her living or dying.

** Another episode had an Unsub who forced his own son to asphixiate himself via hanging himself, but that was no longer enough and he got his son to help him spread this over the internet as a "game", the hanging offering a brief high to those who manage to avoid strangling themselves to death (naturally, a few fail). Then the Unsub, who was a paramedic, got to arrive on the scene and play the hero by trying to save the ashyxiated teens. Hotch calls him a classic case of Munchausen by Proxy.

* ''[[Law and Order SVU]]'' had this exposed in a case that actually centered on a thinly-veiled Michael Jackson analogue. The parental figure of the accuser is the one proven to commit abuse of the child.