Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy, Medical Child Abuse, and Darling Rose Gold

[摘要] By Stephanie Wrobel, New York: Berkley, 2020. 320 pp. $26.00.Munchausen syndrome by proxyfactitious disorder imposed on anothermedical child abuseDarling Rose GoldfictionDarling Rose Gold is Stephanie Wrobel's debut novel, and it appears to be inspired by the case of Gypsy Rose, the medically abused daughter of Dee Dee Blanchard. The book is a fast-paced, easy read with an interesting narrative approach; however, psychiatrist readers may be disappointed with the characterizations. The story is cleverly told through two converging timelines and points of view. Patty Watts, the mother of her darling Rose Gold and adjudicated perpetrator of aggravated child abuse, narrates the story in the present tense. Rose Gold tells her story in the past tense primarily over a period of five years, the length of her mother's prison sentence, and the time needed to hatch a vindictive and ultimately disappointing revenge plot. Eventually these two stories intersect in the present.

[学科分类] 儿科学

[关键词] Munchausen syndrome by proxy;factitious disorder imposed on another;medical child abuse;Darling Rose Gold;fiction