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Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy: Issues in Diagnosis and Treatment

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As the co-editor of this book, I can attest to the fact that it is NOT based on profiling, but on solid clinical experience. Of course evidence, not profiles should be used to determine guilt or innocence. Dr. Roy Meadow, like many of those who tell the truth about this form of child abuse, has been accused of many things, but not "discredited." The issues of whether MBP is an "official" diagnosis, how it is defined, whether it exists "scientifically," and who has "accepted" it, are frequently used to distract from the central question: has a caregiver abused a child by creating a problem or the appearance of a problem. Courts throughout the US and abroad have found this abuse to exist in hundreds of cases.

This book is based on profile evidence and is outdated. Even so-called "experts" on MSBP admit that the profile should not be used to determine the guilt or innocense of a care-giver. Now MSBP has come to mean causing medical harm in order to garner attention.

Further the creator (Roy Meadows) of MSBP has been discredited and court rooms are now recognizing it as not a diagnosis. Attention-seeking is simply a motive. Doctors must show a crime has been commited based on fact. The American Medical Assoc and the American Psychiatric Association does not recognize this "disorder" as a diagnosis.