7.4 /10 1 Votes
Publication date 2003 Pages 244 Originally published April 2003 Page count 244 Followed by My Father's Keeper | 3.7/5 Goodreads Media type Cloth ISBN 0-553-80307-7 Publisher Bantam Books | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Subject psychology
autobiography Child abuse books My Father's Keeper, When Rabbit Howls, A Man Named Dave, The Little Prisoner, A Child Called "It" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sickened: The Memoir of a Münchausen by Proxy Childhood is a 2003 autobiographical account by Julie Gregory of the Münchausen syndrome by proxy child abuse inflicted on her by her mother.
Contents
Book review sickened by julie gregory
Contents
Gregory's mother frequently took her to various doctors, coaching her to act sicker than she was and exaggerating her symptoms, and demanding increasingly invasive procedures to diagnose the girl's imaginary illnesses. At home, her mother fed Gregory a diet based on foods a doctor had said Gregory shouldn't have, administered prescription medicine erratically, sometimes in double doses, and filled her days with strenuous physical labor. According to Gregory, her mother even became upset when one doctor would not perform open heart surgery on her daughter.
When Gregory realized what her mother was doing to her, she tried telling people about it, but no one listened. They thought she was making up stories to gain attention, and had her go to "imagination counseling" to try to tame her from telling crazy stories of her parents.
The memoir also alleges physical and emotional abuse inflicted by Gregory's father.
Reception
Sickened was published in over 20 countries and was named Book Of The Year by The Sunday London Times. It was an editor’s pick in Entertainment Weekly, as well as being one of their top ten books of the year.