[Munchausen syndrome. Case report of a "patient" above suspicion].

The authors, using a clinical case, tried to explain the Munchhausen syndrome from a psychopathological point of view and especially argued why it is so different from hysteria. They made the hypothesis that the Munchhausen syndrome corresponded to a perverted discourse (in a sense of psychoanalytical terminology) which would set in place the patient-doctor relationship in a perverted way.