Abstract
Two cases of Münchhausen Syndrome were reported. They were 69-and 68-years-old women and their characteristic clinical findings were as follows:
(1) Their common premorbid character were timid, industrious and punctilious. Furthermore in case 1, she tended to tell a falsehood and they manifested a lie in the course of the illness.
(2) The onset of the illness were involutional and presenile periods.
(3) The incentive of the illness were laparotomy in case 1 and loss of eyesight after glaucoma operation in case 2.
(4) The great number of hospital peregrination were seen in both cases.
(5) The psychotic symptoms were seen;cenestopathy, delusional idea in case 1 and delusion, hallucination in case 2.
(6) There were the unique contact and character;the former was one-sided and she required persistently medical treatment, and the latter was selfassertive, selfcentered and they told a lie.
From these findings they were Münchhansen Syndrome. Case 1 was typical type of this syndrome and case 2 was the variation. This syndrome seems to include psychotic type.
