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Munchausen (iou) and psychotherapy, rational-emotive (medicine)


Munchausen (iou)



Munchausen noun & verb. M19.
[Baron Munchausen (in German form Munchhausen), hero of a pseudo-autobiographical narrative of impossible adventures, written in English by the German Rudolf Eric Raspe (1785).]
A. noun.
An extravagantly untruthful pseudo-autobiographical story of marvellous adventure; a tall story. M19.
A narrator of such a story or stories. Also Baron Munchausen. M20.
Munchausen syndrome, Munchausen's syndrome, a mental illness in which the patient repeatedly feigns a dramatic or severe illness so as to obtain hospital treatment. M20.
b. verb intrans. Tell extravagantly untruthful pseudo-autobiographical stories of marvellous adventure. Chiefly as Munchausening verbal noun. M19.
Munchausenism noun = MUNCHAUSEN noun 1 M19.

psychotherapy, rational-emotive (medicine)


psychotherapy, rational-emotive


The replacement of illogical and unrealistic ideas with more realistic and adaptive ones through direct intervention and confrontation by the therapist.