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 ...

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 ...

Comprehensive forensic evaluations are predicated on the accurate appraisal of response styles that may affect evaluatees' clinical presentation and experts' conclusions associated with psycholegal ...

I have a patient who has type 1 diabetes and, despite her excellent control with multiple daily injections, her A1c remains very high: 17% to 18%. She has used an insulin pump, but the results didn't ...

“Malingering” – faking a sickness for an ulterior motive – is surprisingly common. Here are some of the ways in which doctors tell real illnesses from false ones. But Gigante was malingering: a term ...

Factitious disorder is defined as intentional efforts to falsify an illness in oneself or another. Manufacturing an injury in oneself or another might also be performed. The individual's identity is ...