Miner I D, Feldman M D
League for the Hard of Hearing, New York, New York, USA.
Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 1998 Jan;20(1):48-51. doi: 10.1016/s0163-8343(97)00100-x.
We describe two women who, over a period of years, feigned the loss of both vision and hearing. Their principal motive appeared to be pursuit of the sick role, though each acquired disability payments as well. A face-saving intervention sharply reduced the alleged hearing deficits in one case; the other patient precipitously left treatment. A broad range of permutations of factitious disorder has been reported, but these appear to be the first published cases of factitious deafblindness.
