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A 3 page research paper that discusses this mental disorder. Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy (MSP) is when a parent, usually the mother, fabricates symptoms in a child thereby subjecting the child to unnecessary medical tests and/or surgical procedures. The primary motivation in MSP appears to be both an intense need by the parent to have attention from professions but also to manipulate people who are perceived as powerful. The Hoyt MSP case is given as an example. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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2005). Munchausens Syndrome by Proxy (MSP) is when a parent, usually the mother, fabricates symptoms in a child thereby subjecting the child to unnecessary medical tests and/or surgical procedures (DeCristofaro,
2005). A parent with MSP will generally act quite concerned about the child and some psychiatrists believe that this is an attention-seeking behavior on the part of the MSP parent
(DeCristofaro, 2005). The primary motivation in MSP appears to be both an intense need to have attention from professions but also to manipulate people who are perceived as powerful (Schreier,
2002). Roy Meadow first defined MSP in 1977 in England (Schreier, 2002). MSP is incredibly difficult to diagnose because the MSP parent can be adept at deception. Frequently, the
MSP parent or guardian in an intelligent person with medical knowledge (DAgostino, 2002). Also, in young infants, the symptoms of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome), which connotes when an infant
stops breathing for no apparent reason, are indistinguishable from when a parent smothers the child intentionally. This fact has enormously complicated matter on the legal side of the equation, as
well as on the medical. This is illustrated by Firstman and Talan (1997) in their account of Hoyt case. In 1970, Waneta Hoyt, a young mother in up-state New
York, smothered her fourth and fifth children, Molly and Noah Hoyt, both children were less than three months old at the time of their deaths (Firstman and Talan, 1997). Prior
to losing these two children, the Hoyts had lost three children, who all presumably died of SIDS. These journalists describe the relationship between criminal investigation and medical research within the
emotionally charge context created by SIDS. In 1972, Alfred Steinschneider, a physician who studied the Hoyt children prior to their deaths, published a paper in a leading medical journal, Pediatrics,
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