a type of pathomimicry consisting of life-threatening hemorrhages caused by secretly self-inflicted wounds. It is linked with the pathology of mourning and introjection: Patients with this disorder have all experienced traumatic losses. [named in 1967 by French hematologist Jean Bernard and colleagues after the heroine in Une histoire sans nom, a novel by French writer Jules Barbey D’Aurevilly (1808–1889)]