| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 370 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Wilful deception as illness behaviour / Peter W. Halligan, Christopher Bass, and David A. Oakley -- Malingering : historical perspectives / Simon Wessely -- Malingering, shirking, and self-inflicted injuries in the military / Ian P. Palmer -- Can monkeys malinger? / Richard W. Byrne and Emma Stokes -- Conceptual issues and explanatory models of malingering / Richard Rogers and Craig S. Neumann -- The social cognition of intentional action / Bertram F. Malle -- Malingering and criminal behaviour as psychopathology / Adrian Raine -- Alternatives to four clinical and research traditions in malingering detection / David Faust -- Characteristics of the sick role / Lindsay Prior and Fiona Wood -- The contemporary cultural context for deception and malingering in Britain / W. Peter Robinson -- Illness falsification in children : pathways to prevention? / Judith A. Libow -- Distinguishing malingering from psychiatric disorders / Michael Sharpe -- The nature of chronic pain : a clinical and legal challenge / Chris J. Main -- The misadventures of wanderers and victims of trauma / Loren Pankratz -- When the quantity of mercy is strained : U.S. physicians' deception of insurers for patients / Matthew K. Wynia -- Law, lies, and videotape : malingering as a legal phenomenon / Michael A. Jones -- Outcome-related compensation : in search of a new paradigm / George Mendelson -- Malingering and the law : a third way? / Alan Sprince -- How can organizations prevent illness deception among employees? / Charles Baron and Jon Poole -- Lying as an executive function / Sean Spence [and others] -- Differential brain activations for malingered and subjectively 'real' paralysis / David A. Oakley [and others] -- Origins, practice, and limitations of disability assessment medicine / Mansel Aylward -- Malingering, insurance medicine, and the medicalization of fraud / John LoCascio -- Investigating benefit fraud and illness deception in the United Kingdom / Richard Kitchen -- Neuropsychological tests and techniques that detect malingering / Richard I. Frederick -- Misrepresentation of pain and facial expression / Kenneth D. Craig and Marilyn Hill -- Deceptive responses and detecting deceit / Aldert Vrij and Samantha Mann |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Malingering.
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Deception.
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Malingering -- diagnosis
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Malingering
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Deception
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness.
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Deception
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Malingering
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Halligan, Peter W.
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Bass, Christopher M. (Christopher Maurice)
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Oakley, David A.
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| ISBN |
1417599774 |
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9781417599776 |
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1281015652 |
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9781281015655 |
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