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OverviewDespite 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Peter Halligan (, School of Psychology, University of Cardiff, UK) , Christopher Bass (, Department of Psychological Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK) , David Oakley (, Department of Psychology, University College London, UK)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.745kg ISBN: 9780198515548ISBN 10: 0198515545 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 02 October 2003 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsSECTION 1: INTRODUCTION ; 1. Wilful deception as illness behaviour ; SECTION 2: HISTORICAL, MILITARY AND EVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS ; 2. Malingering: historical perspectives ; 3. Malingering, shirking and self-inflicted injuries in the military ; 4. Can monkeys malinger? ; SECTION 3: CONCEPTUAL, METHODOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT ; 5. Conceptual issues and explanatory models of malingering ; 6. The social cognition of intentional action ; 7. Malingering and criminal behaviour as psychopathology ; 8. Alternatives to four clinical and research traditions in malingering detection ; 9. Characteristics of the sick role ; 10. The contemporary cultural context for deception and malingering in Britain ; SECTION 4: ILLNESS DECEPTION AND CLINICAL PRACTICE ; 11. Illness falsification in children: pathways to prevention? ; 12. Distinguishing malingering from psychiatric disorders ; 13. The nature of chronic pain: a clinical and legal challenge ; 14. The misadventures of wanderers and victims of traumas ; 15. When the quantity of mercy is strained: US physicians' deception of insurers for patients ; SECTION 5: MEDICOLEGAL AND OCCUPATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ; 16. Law, lies and videotape: malingering as a legal phenomenon ; 17. Outcome related compensation: in search of a new paradigm ; 18. Malingering and the law: a third way? ; 19. How can organisations prevent illness deception among employees? ; SECTION 6: CONTRIBUTIONS FROM COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE ; 20. Lying as an executive function ; 21. Differential brain activations for malingered and subjectively 'real' paralysis ; SECTION 7: DISABILITY ANALYSIS AND INSURANCE MEDICINE ; 22. Origins, practice and limitiations of Disability Assessment Medicine ; 23. Malingering, insurance medicine and the medicalization of fraud ; SECTION 8: DECEPTION DETECTION ; 24. Investigating benefit fraud and illness deception in the United Kingdom ; 25. Neuropsychological tests and techniques that detect malingering ; 26. Misrepresentation of pain and facial expression ; 27. Deceptive responses and detecting deceitReviews... [this book] handles a difficult, and emotive, matter with masterful neutrality and objectivity. The theoretical concepts are well explained and research data is allowed to speak for itself ... important reading for all practitioners who are called upon to make medical judgements which influence a patient's access to an illness entitlement: for example, insurance claims, sickness certification or pensions assessments. Primary Care Psychiatry, Vol 9, No 3 ... an excellent theoretical overview of malingering. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, Vol 15, No 2 ... 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. Journal of Neurology, Vol 251, No 3 ... [this book] handles a difficult, and emotive, matter with masterful neutrality and objectivity. The theoretical concepts are well explained and research data is allowed to speak for itself ... important reading for all practitioners who are called upon to make medical judgements which influence a patient's access to an illness entitlement: for example, insurance claims, sickness certification or pensions assessments. Primary Care Psychiatry, Vol 9, No 3 ... an excellent theoretical overview of malingering. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, Vol 15, No 2 ... 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. Journal of Neurology, Vol 251, No 3 Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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