Malingering.

Malingering Among Criminals

Malingering Using Classification Test

A category classification test was used to differentiate between normal student eontrol participant.~. students instructed to malinger a memory deficit, and amnesic" patients. Controls (N = 44) and amnesic patients (N = 10) were instructed to do their best, while simulators of malingering (N = 43) were instructed to fake a memory deficit for credit and possible financial compensation. Partieipa...

Malingering: Discussion on

Malingering of Scrotal Dermatitis

Dermatologists are often faced with psychological and psychiatric problems, including patients with self-inflicted dermatoses [Cotterill and Millard, 1998]. While in some patients the diagnosis of dermatitis artefacta is obvious, in other instances the patient may evade a correct diagnosis, often successfully deceiving many doctors for many years. In short, well-intentioned doctors find it diff...

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...