Malingering and Illness Deception
Malingering and Illness Deception

Author: Peter W. Halligan

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 0198515545

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Despite a rich and turbulent history spanning several centuries, malingering continues to be a controversial and neglected clinical condition that has significant implications for medical, social, legal and insurance interests. Estimates of malingering - the wilful, intentional attempt to simulate or exaggerate illness in the pursuit of a consciously desired end - vary greatly, despite the fact that malingering is believed to contribute substantially to fraudulent health care and social welfare costs. There is little consensus about what would constitute a coherent assessment of malingering, and base rates have been difficult to establish. Malingering remains a difficult attribution to make not least since it falls outside the remit of the formal psychiatric classifications. Labelling a person as a malingerer however, has significant medico-legal, personal and economic ramifications for both subject and accuser. Viewed in this way, malingering is not so much illness behavior in search of a disease, as the manifestation of a conflict between personal and social values. The aim of this book is to effect an integration of the different medical, forensic, neuropsychological, legal and social perspectives. The book provides an overview of progress in disparate fields relevant to the subject, including how recent social and neuroscience findings regarding volition, intentional states and theory of mind may have implications for informing detection, management and ultimately its explanation.

Dying to be Ill
Dying to be Ill

Author: Marc D. Feldman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-11

Total Pages: 511

ISBN-13: 1351663534

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Most of us can recall a time when we pretended to be sick to reap the benefits that go along with illness. By playing sick, we gained sympathy, care, and attention, and were excused from our responsibilities. Though doing so on occasion is considered normal, there are those who carry their deceptions to the extreme. In this book, Dr. Marc Feldman describes people’s strange motivations to fabricate or induce illness or injury to satisfy deep emotional needs. Doctors, family members, and friends are lured into a costly, frustrating, and potentially deadly web of deceit. From the mother who shaves her child’s head and tells her community he has cancer, to the co-worker who suffers from a string of incomprehensible "tragedies," to the false epilepsy victim who monopolizes her online support group, "disease forgery" is ever-present in the media and in many people’s lives. In Dying to be Ill: True Stories of Medical Deception, Dr. Feldman, with the assistance of Gregory Yates, has chronicled this fascinating world as well as the paths to healing. With insight developed from 25 years of hands-on experience, Dying to be Ill is sure to stand as a classic in the field.

DSM-5 and the Law
DSM-5 and the Law

Author: Charles L. Scott

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0199368465

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Causality of Psychological Injury
Causality of Psychological Injury

Author: Gerald Young

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-05-31

Total Pages: 639

ISBN-13: 0387364455

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This book offers a welcome expansion on key concepts, terms, and issues in causality. It brings much needed clarity to psychological injury assessments and the legal contexts that employ them. Focusing on PTSD, traumatic brain injury, and chronic pain (and grounding readers in salient U.S. and Canadian case law), the book sets out a multifactorial causality framework to facilitate admissibility of psychological evidence in court.

The Spectrum of Factitious Disorders
The Spectrum of Factitious Disorders

Author: Marc D. Feldman

Publisher: American Psychiatric Pub

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780880489096

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Factitious disorder presents one of the most challenging variants of psychopathology in medicine. The Spectrum of Factitious Disorders is the first book for professionals to offer a comprehensive overview of current thinking about patients who feign or induce illness -- in themselves or others -- to accrue the intangible benefits of the "sick" role. Attempts to influence factitious patients' behavior have been largely unsuccessful. This volume covers innovative techniques for treating such patients, stressing the need to treat them with acceptance and understanding. First-person accounts are used to illustrate the intense feelings mobilized in friends, family members, caregivers, and patients themselves as factitious disorders play out. The book also presents a management approach that emphasizes respect for the patient, no matter what the symptomatology. Using abundant case material, this revolutionary work aids mental health practitioners in understanding the phenomenon of "disease-forgery" and addresses its inherent management challenges. Notable contributors provide relevant information on ethical and legal issues in factitious disorders. The clinical features, detection, and management of factitious disorder by proxy are explored, along with comprehensive psychosocial assessment and legal issues in such cases.

Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry
Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry

Author: Michael G. Gelder

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 962

ISBN-13:

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An extensively revised and redesigned edition of a reference work which incorporates the latest revisions of the "International Classification of Diseases" (ICD 10) and the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders" (DSM IV).

Disorders of Simulation
Disorders of Simulation

Author: Grant L. Hutchinson

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781887841368

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An essential desk reference that answers the basic questions all clinicians must ask when faced with an apparently simulating patient: What is the next step once simulation is suspected? Should the valuation be standard or modified? What modifications should be made? Should the patient be confronted? How can the clinicians know when his or her suspicions are wrong? What constitutes legitimate proof of simulation? Is the patient consciously faking? This book goes a long way toward undoing the confusion engendered by DSM's inadequate definitions, minimal criteria, and vague standards for the three Disorders of Simulation: Malingering, Factitious Disorder, and Compensation Neurosis.

Malingering and Illness Deception
Malingering and Illness Deception

Author: Peter Halligan

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2003-10-02

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0191587214

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Despite a rich and turbulent history spanning several centuries, malingering continues to be a controversial and neglected clinical condition that has significant implications for medical, social, legal and insurance interests. Estimates of malingering - the wilful, intentional attempt to simulate or exaggerate illness in the pursuit of a consciously desired end - vary greatly, despite the fact that malingering is believed to contribute substantially to fraudulent health care and social welfare costs. There is little consensus about what would constitute a coherent assessment of malingering, and base rates have been difficult to establish. Malingering remains a difficult attribution to make not least since it falls outside the remit of the formal psychiatric classifications. Labelling a person as a malingerer however, has significant medico-legal, personal and economic ramifications for both subject and accuser. Viewed in this way, malingering is not so much illness behaviour in search of a disease, as the manifestation of a conflict between personal and social values. The aim of this book is to effect an integration of the different medical, forensic, neuropsychological, legal and social perspectives. The book provides an overview of progress in disparate fields relevant to the subject, including how recent social and neuroscience findings regarding volition, intentional states and theory of mind may have implications for informing detection, management and ultimately its explanation.

Psychiatry
Psychiatry

Author: Thomas Szasz

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 2019-02-28

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 0815650442

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For more than half a century, Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to a radical critique of psychiatry. His latest work, Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, is a culmination of his life’s work: to portray the integral role of deception in the history and practice of psychiatry. Szasz argues that the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness stands in the same relationship to the diagnosis and treatment of bodily illness that the forgery of a painting does to the original masterpiece. Art historians and the legal system seek to distinguish forgeries from originals. Those concerned with medicine, on the other hand—physicians, patients, politicians, health insurance providers, and legal professionals—take the opposite stance when faced with the challenge of distinguishing everyday problems in living from bodily diseases, systematically authenticating nondiseases as diseases. The boundary between disease and nondisease—genuine and imitation, truth and falsehood—thus becomes arbitrary and uncertain. There is neither glory nor profit in correctly demarcating what counts as medical illness and medical healing from what does not. Individuals and families wishing to protect themselves from medically and politically authenticated charlatanry are left to their own intellectual and moral resources to make critical decisions about human dilemmas miscategorized as "mental diseases" and about medicalized responses misidentified as "psychiatric treatments." Delivering his sophisticated analysis in lucid prose and with a sharp wit, Szasz continues to engage and challenge readers of all backgrounds.