factitious

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Prof Marc Feldman is one of the world's most renowned experts on factitious disorders like Munchausen syndrome.

From BBC

Dr. Marc Feldman is a psychiatrist who studies factitious disorders in which a person acts as if they, or a loved one, have a disease.

From New York Times

The first story is about young women living in a college dorm for students with factitious disorders — they are referred to not by name, but by number — who become subjects of a sociological thesis.

From New York Times

This is a fine subject for a drama, but Mr. White’s script, which has Phil answer in blank monosyllables, feels factitious and stagy.

From New York Times

There is even a pathological manifestation of the condition called “factitious victimisation”, of which Munchausen syndrome is an extreme version.

From The Guardian