With increasing numbers of patients presenting at our nation’s already oversubscribed emergency departments (EDs) for mental healthcare, the Psychiatric Times recently posed a pointed question: Just ...

Understand the distinctions between malingering, feigning illness, and deceptive reporting and the issues that complicate research and identification of feigning in clinical practice. Recognize the ...

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Malingering is the purposeful production of falsely or grossly exaggerated physical and/or psychological symptoms with the goal of receiving a reward. This reward may include money, an insurance ...

A decade ago, while working as a psychiatry resident in the emergency room of a New York City hospital, I encountered a patient whose medical record revealed that he’d had several hundred prior ...

Accused criminals frequently feign mental illness as a ploy to hinder prosecution and evade or lessen punishment. In one study 17.5 percent of the convicted criminals investigated by researchers were ...