![]() ![]() Amazingly, Gregory never stopped loving her manipulative mother and ineffectual but sometimes brutal father. of Alabama) notes in his foreword, many victims of MBP do not. That she survived this miserable childhood seems remarkable, for as Marc Feldman (Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology/Univ. ![]() At home, Gregory suffered other forms of child abuse, including beatings and semi-starvation. When heart catheterization failed to reveal the abnormalities the mother insisted were there, she demanded that open-heart surgery be performed on her daughter. At first the illnesses were relatively minor-nausea, headaches, allergies-but as her mother’s collection of home medical books provided information about more symptoms and tests, they escalated. Gregory’s mother did this to her for many years, dragging her to doctor after doctor, coaching her to act sick, punishing her harshly if she didn’t do it convincingly enough, demanding endless treatments, tests, and invasive procedures, including surgery. In Munchausen by Proxy (MBP), a caretaker, usually the mother, falsifies or induces physical and/or mental illness in a dependent person, usually a child, to gain sympathy from others and control over the dependent. ![]() Horrific first-person account of child abuse by a survivor with keen self-awareness, a sharp eye for detail, and an original, poetic voice. ![]()
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