Malingering and Illness Deception

by Halligan, Peter W.; Bass, Christopher; Oakley, David A.

• ISBN13: 9780198515548
• ISBN10: 0198515545
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Sensitivities and confusion regarding the nature of illness deception continue to be a major feature of modern medicine and social security policy in most Western democracies. Although biomedical explanations dominate, neither of the standard psychiatric glossaries consider malingering -- the intentional production of false or exaggerated symptoms motivated by external incentives -- to be a valid diagnostic term. This is clinically and theoretically important, since disagreements both within and outside the medical community regarding the fundamental nature of illness deception are still largely framed in medical parameters given the absence of credible or acceptable non-medical accounts. In neglecting non-medical explanations, modern medicine runs the risk of underestimating the capacity of individuals to influence and control their own behaviours, as they do in other areas of life.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	xi
Section 1 Introduction
Wilful deception as illness behaviour	3	(28)
Peter W. Halligan
Christopher Bass
David A. Oakley
Section 2 Historical, military, and evolutionary origins
Malingering: historical perspectives	31	(11)
Simon Wessely
Malingering, shirking, and self-inflicted injuries in the military	42	(12)
Ian P. Palmer
Can monkeys malinger?	54	(17)
Richard W. Byrne
Emma Stokes
Section 3 Conceptual, methodological, and cultural context
Conceptual issues and explanatory models of malingering	71	(12)
Richard Rogers
Craig S. Neumann
The social cognition of intentional action	83	(10)
Bertram F. Malle
Malingering and criminal behaviour as psychopathology	93	(14)
Adrian Raine
Alternatives to four clinical and research traditions in malingering detection	107	(15)
David Faust
Characteristics of the sick role	122	(10)
Lindsay Prior
Fiona Wood
The contemporary cultural context for deception and malingering in Britain	132	(15)
W. Peter Robinson
Section 4 Illness deception and clinical practice
Illness falsification in children: pathways to prevention?	147	(9)
Judith A. Libow
Distinguishing malingering from psychiatric disorders	156	(15)
Michael Sharpe
The nature of chronic pain: a clinical and legal challenge	171	(13)
Chris J. Main
The misadventures of wanderers and victims of trauma	184	(13)
Loren Pankratz
When the quantity of mercy is strained: US physicians' deception of insurers for patients	197	(12)
Matthew K. Wynia
Section 5 Medicolegal and occupational perspectives
Law, lies, and videotape: malingering as a legal phenomenon	209	(11)
Michael A. Jones
Outcome-related compensation: in search of a new paradigm	220	(12)
George Mendelson
Malingering and the law: a third way?	232	(11)
Alan Sprince
How can organizations prevent illness deception among employees?	243	(12)
Charles Baron
Jon Poole
Section 6 Contributions from cognitive neuroscience
Lying as an executive function	255	(12)
Sean Spence
Tom Farrow
David Leung
Samir Shah
Becky Reilly
Anna Rahman
Amy Herford
Differential brain activations for malingered and subjectively `real' paralysis	267	(20)
David A. Oakley
Nicholas S. Ward
Peter W. Halligan
Richard S. J. Frackowiak
Section 7 Disability analysis and insurance medicine
Origins, practice, and limitations of Disability Assessment Medicine	287	(14)
Mansel Aylward
Malingering, insurance medicine, and the medicalization of fraud	301	(12)
John LoCascio
Section 8 Deception detection
Investigating benefit fraud and illness deception in the United Kingdom	313	(10)
Richard Kitchen
Neuropsychological tests and techniques that detect malingering	323	(13)
Richard I. Frederick
Misrepresentation of pain and facial expression	336	(12)
Kenneth D. Craig
Marilyn Hill
Deceptive responses and detecting deceit	348	(15)
Aldert Vrij
Samantha Mann
Index	363