malingering

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• New chapters on Techniques for the Malingering Patient and Assessing Attention - Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
• We've seen senior members of parliament here tell people with depression they're malingering, ‘get over it, get back to work’.
• The patients were not diagnosed as having a factitious disorder or malingering because their symptoms were judged not to be fabricated, feigned, or intentionally produced.
• The problem is the difficulty of distinguishing malingering from factitious disorders, in which symptoms are intentionally produced but where there is no apparent external incentive and the motivation seems to be unconscious.
• Initially, we were dejected and nearly ‘bought’ his hard luck story; but a little questioning gave away his sheer malingering.
• Many people associate mental illness with self indulgence, weakness, and malingering.
• It's the standard operating put-down with which irate mothers pack off malingering boys - who cite unconnected causes while feigning outlandish illnesses - to school.
• Researchers also note the need to examine the patient's psychological status when hysteria, malingering, or factitious illness may be a factor.
• And we all have some creative, malingering patients worthy of an Academy Award.
• Feldman is a nationally known expert in the areas of factitious disorders, Munchausen by proxy and malingering, having written three books on these subjects.