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Because malingering is a diagnosis of exclusion, it must first entail differential diagnosis with somatoform and factitious disorders.
Assessment of malingered psychosis in mental health counseling
Factitious disorder usually occurs in people facing many psychological and real-life stressors from which he or she is trying to escape.
Fink! still at large: factitious disorders are rare and often challenging to treat. What factors might motivate these patients to feign illness, and what therapeutic approaches could be used to treat them?
Factitious disorder with physical manifestations: pitfalls of diagnosis and management.
Recovery from Munchausen syndrome
The purpose of this article is to present a clinical experience with subtle forms of factitious disorders at Baylor University Medical Center (BUMC).
Factitious disease: clinical lessons from case studies at Baylor University Medical Center
Schorrig concludes that the possible existence of a factitious disorder on the part of a claimant alleging sexual abuse "at the very least" has a bearing on the "credibility or lack thereof" of the claimant.
The problem of false claims of clergy sexual abuse
Factitious disorder is described by the American Psychiatric Association as "intentional production or feigning of physical or psychological signs or symptoms" that is not driven by external incentives such as economic gain or the avoidance of legal responsibility.
Be on the Lookout for Factitious Preterm Labor
Regarding these neurological and psychiatric evaluations, the patient was diagnosed as having depressive and factitious disorder, which was considered as PMD.
A case of psychogenic movement disorders: dark side of neurology and neuropsychiatry/Bir psikojenik hareket bozuklugu olgusu: noroloji ve noropsikiyatrinin karanlik yuzu
12) Factitious disorder is characterized by physical or mental symptoms produced voluntarily by the patient, while the unconscious motive is embracing the patient role.
Conversion motor paralysis disorder
3) The symptom or deficit is not intentionally produced or feigned (as in factitious disorder or malingering).
Conversion disorder presenting as hemiplegia and hemianesthesia with loss of neurologic reflexes: a case report
Factitious disorder, also known as Munchausen syndrome, is an extreme condition that defines patients who intentionally produce or feign symptoms or disabilities, either physical or psychological.
A rare cause of hemoptysis: factitious disorder
Key Words: cardiopathia fantastica, factitious disorder, Munchausen syndrome, somatoform disorders
Cardiopathia fantastica: the Cardiac variant of Munchausen syndrome
Factitious disorder by proxy: Clinical features, detection, and management, in Feldman MD, Eisendrath SJ (eds): The Spectrum of Factitious Disorders.
Celiac disease as a manifestation of Munchausen by proxy

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