Ganser syndrome
RARE DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER PREVIOUSLY CLASSIFIED AS A FACTITIOUS DISORDER
Ganzer syndrome; Ganser Syndrome; Ganser's syndrome; Ganzer synrome
Ganser syndrome is a rare dissociative disorder characterized by nonsensical or wrong answers to questions and other dissociative symptoms such as fugue, amnesia or conversion disorder, often with visual pseudohallucinations and a decreased state of consciousness. The syndrome has also been called nonsense syndrome, balderdash syndrome, syndrome of approximate answers, hysterical pseudodementia or prison psychosis.