Factitious victimization: A forensic variant of Munchausen's syndrome?

Forensic psychiatric services are sometimes asked to assess individuals who have reported themselves to have been the victim of a crime, but where there are indications that the report is factitious. The present paper reports a detailed investigation of a female patient referred to a forensic psychiatric service following reports of multiple incidents of victimization. It is suggested that factitious victimization can be usefully viewed as a variant of Munchausen's Syndrome.