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Interest in Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy has been stimulated by a recent sensational trial in this country. The extraordinary contradictions between caring and destructiveness to which this syndrome points is one that puzzles many professionals who are no strangers to the notion of ambivalence and conflicting impulses. Dr Herbert Schreier has studied and written about the problem extensively and this seems an appropriate moment to reprint his paper1.