Happy new year! It’s Monika, the Principal Investigator of the Proxy Project. Instead of writing about sexual abuse or poisoning, today I thought I’d add a little levity to the subject of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSbP). We at the Proxy Project consistently complain on our conference calls about the ridiculous names professional scientists give to […]
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In my earlier posts, I describe how my mother, a psychiatrist and MSbP perpetrator, first treated me as a child for “Lyme disease” (which I must mention again, I may or may not have had it; I don’t really remember) and later switched to her insisting I have “bipolar disorder”. Mom Dopes me up with […]
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I found it difficult to simply write a cheerful “Happy Winter Holidays!” on behalf of the Proxy Project. After all, we are a site about child abuse, and there’s no cheer in the topic, nor in the memories many of us have about the holiday seasons of our past. Anxiety may dominate for those who […]
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In my previous posts in this series, I reviewed two articles, one from 1989 and one from 1999, that describe medical sexual abuse in MSbP perpetrators. In the cases reviewed, 5 perpetrators were mothers and one was a father. Two red flags that medical sexual abuse by an MSbP perpetrator is going on are False […]
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In the struggle and search for answers to the problem of abuse, we encounter the question of what is or is not considered abuse. One immediate problem for me is that the definition of “emotional” abuse is used synonymously with “psychological” abuse. KP O’Hagan addressed the problem in 1995, in his article in Child Abuse […]
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