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Zusatztext . . . this is an invaluable attempt to define the conceptual framework for formal study of medical malingering. In contrast to the reductionist science which has dominated science for the last 50 years, this will inform the Art of medicine . . . I hope many of you will obtain this fascinating book. Klappentext 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 tosimulate 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 personas 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. Draws together important findings from the many fields touched by malingering Zusammenfassung Malingering is a form of illness deception commonly defined as the 'wilful, intentional attempt to simulate or exaggerate illness in the pursuit of a consciously desired end'. This book considers issues of detection, prevalence, differential diagnosis and some of the related psycho-social processes involved. Inhaltsverzeichnis Section 1: Introduction 1: Halligan, Bass and Oakley: Wilful deception as illness behaviour Section 2: Historical, Military and Evolutionary Origins 2: Wessely: Malingering: historical perspectives 3: Palmer: Malingering, shirking and self-inflicted injuries in the military 4: Byrne and Stokes: Can monkeys malinger? Section 3: Conceptual, Methodological and Cultural Context 5: Rogers and Neumann: Conceptual issues and explanatory models of malingering 6: Malle: The social cognition of intentional action 7: Raine: Malingering and criminal behaviour as psychopathology 8: Faust: Alternatives to four clinical and research traditions in malingering detection 9: Prior and Wood: Characteristics of the sick role 10: Robinson: The contemporary cultural context for deception and malingering in Britain Section 4: Illness Deception and Clinical Practice 11: Libow: Illness falsification in children: pathways to prevention? 12: Sharpe: Distinguishing malingering from psychiatric disorders 13: Main: The nature of chronic pain: a clinical and legal challenge 14: Pankratz: The misadventures of wanderers and victims of traumas 15: Wynia: When the quantity of mercy is strained: US physicians' deception of insurers for patients Section 5: Medicolegal and Occupational Perspectives 16: Jones: Law, lies and videotape: malingering as a legal phenomenon 17: Mendelson: Outcome related compensation: in search of a new paradigm 18: Sprince: Malingering and the law: a third way? 19: Baron and Poole: How can organisations prevent illness deception among employees? Section 6: Contributions from Cognitive Neur...
