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Malingering

Malingering is the intentional fabrication, feigning, or exaggeration of physical or psychological symptoms to obtain an external benefit, such as personal gain, relief from duty or work, avoidance of arrest, acquisition of medication, or mitigation of criminal sentencing.

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Differential diagnosis
Factitious disorder, somatization disorder
Specialty
Psychiatry, clinical psychology

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Malingering

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Edges129
Triples111
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.015385
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Malingering

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related to Antiquity · 32
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related to Tests · 14
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related to Modern period · 10
Malingering → Agnes, Although, Believing, Garfinkel, Harold Garfinkel, In, Patton, Physicians, The, US Army General George
related to Legal issues · 8
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related to Types · 8
Malingering → Classifying, False, Identifying, It, Partial, Pure, Robert Resnick, This
related to Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder · 7
Malingering → ADHD, An, Medicinal, Research, The, This, Willingness
related to Post-traumatic stress disorder · 7
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related to Renaissance · 7
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related to Detection · 6
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see also · 6
Malingering → Doctor, Inventory, Jews, Malingered SymptomatologySyndrome, Medicine, Nazis

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feigned disorder madness may symptoms illness mental also behaviour feign gain avoid insanity dsm-5 feigns external patient would order feigning

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MalingeringDifferential diagnosisFactitious disorder, somatization disorder1.00infobox
MalingeringSpecialtyPsychiatry, clinical psychology1.00infobox
Malingeringis aintentional fabrication0.90text
Malingeringis apressing societal issue.TestsThere are multiple methods to evaluate malingering0.90text
Malingeringrelated to AntiquityAccording0.60section
Malingeringrelated to AntiquitySamuel0.60section
Malingeringrelated to AntiquityOld Testament0.60section
Malingeringrelated to AntiquityKing David0.60section
Malingeringrelated to AntiquityAchish0.60section
Malingeringrelated to AntiquityPhilistines0.60section
Malingeringrelated to AntiquitySome0.60section
Malingeringrelated to AntiquitySeptuagint0.60section

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