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    “He slides his blade across my taut muscle like a bow to a violin. Please don’t do this to me. He has broken the seal of my body. Blood flows from the slit and rushes; staining‚ screaming across the cool white sheet. My mother is making it up.” This is Julie Gregory’s first-hand account of a surgery that her mother forced her to have‚ to find a heart condition that didn’t exist. Julie was abused by her mother throughout her life through social deprivation‚ nutritional and medical neglect‚ emotional

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    back part-time to The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Now Radar Online is revealing Yolanda’s thoughts on the fact that the show is making it look like Yolanda could be faking her Lyme disease. On last week’s episode‚ Lisa Rinna even brought up Munchausen syndrome‚ which is a mental illness where people fake having a disease. A source is now speaking out on what Yolanda Foster thinks about the way that the show is making her look. Yolanda is really mad about the editing that she is getting because

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    Linton. Well intended‚ but having the wrong idea‚ totally describes the character of Mrs. Catherine Linton. She is a strong willed spirit‚ but at some times‚ can be illogical with her decision-making. She suffers extensively from what I believe to be Munchausen Syndrome‚ which is not especially apparent in this passage‚ but is hinted with some inference along with other dysfunctional characteristics. Within this passage lies the heart of the story behind Wuthering Heights. The problem‚ however‚ is the

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    FACTITIOUS DISORDER Facticious means artificial or unnatural‚ a definition that could not be more appropriate. People who suffer from factitious disorder (FD) “are great con men or con women‚ although what they obtain through their conning most people would far rather not have”[1]. The earliest accounts of factitious disorders are recorded in the times of Galen‚ a Roman physician in the second century A.D. The term ‘factitious’ itself‚ is derived from a book‚ published in 1843 by Gavin‚

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    Matteol‚ R. L‚ The Munchausen Complex: Socialization of Violence and Abuse Dog Ear Publishing‚ 2011 ----------------------- [5] George C Denniston‚ Understanding Circumcision: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to a Multi-Dimensional Problem. New York [u.a.: Kluwer Acad./Plenum Publ‚ 2001‚ p. 245. [6]George C Denniston‚ Frederick Mansfield Hodges and Marilyn Fayre Milos. Genital autonomy: Protecting personal choice‚ Dordrecht: Springe‚ 2010‚ (p. 78). [7] Richard L Matteol The Munchausen Complex: Socialization

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    In the movie The Others‚ there are many things that made me think more in depth about the aspect of horror and gothic. The film starts off with the mother‚ Grace‚ screaming when she woke up. Many things went through my head when that happened. As I thought about it more and more after the movie‚ I began to think that Grace woke up after killing herself and her 2 children. After she woke up‚ they began to tell the story of how they got to the end‚ where they are all dead. Something in the movie that

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    comfort zone. I am usually not interested in biographies‚ but I really enjoyed this book. I liked how she told the story just from her point of view and how she felt about the situation. She was a young girl whose mother had a mental condition called munchausen by proxy in which she

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    Sexual Abuse III. Forms of Punishment A. Physical Punishment B. Verbal Punishment IV. Abuse and Neglect in School V. Emotional Problems A. Suicide B. Crime C. Syndromes 1. Munchausen ’s Syndrome 2. Stockholm ’s Syndrome 3. Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) VI. Prevention Programs A. National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN) B. Family Resource Coalition (FRC)

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    Sandro Botticelli has created this Tempura on canvas painting ‚ it measures 172.5 x 278.5cm and is located in the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence .The Birth of Venus belongs to the renaissance period and is not a representation of a Christian legend but an interpretation of a classical Myth. This painting is one of a series which Botticelli was inspired to paint after the written descriptions by the 2nd century historian Lucian. It depicts the classical goddess Venus emerging from the water on

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    the caretakers. A)Helen Keller B)Ann Frank C)Steve Urkle D)Mary Ellen Wilson 7. Intergenerational trans violent theory is also known as the what theory? A)Big Worded Theory B)Abuse theory C)Munchausen Syndrome proxy D)Cycle of Violence Theory 8. According to most recent confirmed research which abuse is more prevalent than others A)Sexual B)Neglect C)Ritual D)Physical 9. Theories of physical child

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