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Topic ID: 2089
Message ID: 5
#5, RE: Bill McReynold's Responses
Posted by Evening2 on Jan-25-04 at 06:56 AM
In response to message #4
There has been some discussion on this forum regarding the manner in which Bill McReynolds answered some questions,,,most agreed his answers were strange, unusual, and evasive. Might he have had Ganser's syndrome?

"... told everybody I avoided prison on a Ganser syndrome." Ganser's syndrome is an unusual dissociative reaction to extreme stress in which the patient gives absurd or silly answers to simple questions. It has sometimes been labeled as psychiatric malingering, but is more often classified as a factitious disorder. This disorder is variously attributed to underlying personality disorders; child abuse; the wish to repeat a satisfying childhood relationship with a doctor; and the desire to deceive or test authority figures. Also, the wish to assume the role of patient and be cared for is involved. In many cases, the suffering of a major personal loss has been implicated."