Malingering mental disorders: Medicolegal reporting

Factitious Disorders and Malingering

Patients may present to the emergency department with symptoms that are simulated or intentionally produced. The reasons that cause this behavior define two distinct varieties: factitious disorders and malingering. Factitious disorders are characterized by symptoms or signs that are intentionally produced or feigned by the patient in the absence of apparent external incentives. Factitious disor...

Malingering and Factitious Disorders

The Malingering of Psychotic Disorders

The phenomenon if malingered psychosis is examined through a review if the available literature. Possible motivations fi r malingering are discussed, and clinical indicators if'feigned psychotic symptoms are reviewed. The methods discussed ficus on the inpatient evaluation if suspected malingerers and include discussions if interview techniques and psychometric testing to supplement clinical im...

Detection of feigned mental disorders: a meta-analysis of the MMPI-2 and malingering.

The validity of test data from multiscale inventories is dependent on self-reports that may be easily distorted by malingering. In examining the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2's (MMPI-2) role in the assessment of feigning, this review provides a conceptual analysis of the detection strategies underlying the MMPI-2 validity scales. The conceptual analysis is augmented by comprehen...

Malingering of Psychiatric Disorders: A Review

Malingering is conceptualized in contemporary clinical practice as a condition requiring clinical attention. The malingering of psychiatric disorders is perhaps more prevalent than previously thought and is associated with considerable cost to the society. There is no fool-proof method to identify malingerers and its detection and management raise complex methodological, ethical and legal quest...