http://psychrights.org/Articles/DHealy2007PediatricBipolarDisorderJRS419.pdfPediatric bipolar disorder: An object of study in the creation of anillness, by David Healy and Joanna Le Noury, International Journal of Risk &Safety in Medicine, 19 (2007) 209-221.As outlined above, a number of forces appear to have swept aside traditionalacademic skepticism with the result that an increasing number of childrenand infants are being put on cocktails of potent drugs without any evidenceof benefit..........If the process outlined here was one that could reasonably beexpected to lead to benefits it could regarded as therapeutic. But giventhat there is no evidence for benefit and abundant prima facie evidence thatgiving the drugs in question to vulnerable subjects in such quantitiescannot but produce consequent difficulties for many of these minors, one hasto wonder whether we are not witnessing instead a variation on Munchausen'ssyndrome, where some significant other wants the individual to be ill andthese significant others derive some gain from these proxy illnesses.