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Clinical Detection of Malingering

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Detection of Malingering during Head Injury Litigation

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There is no question that malingered data must be recognized and dealt with if neuropsychological data are to be accepted as representing valid indices of diagnostic, etiological, and prognostic phenomena. As neuropsychologists are increasingly drawn into the forensic arena, the veridicality and reliability of data generated by neuropsychological examination have increasingly been brought under scrutiny and into question (Satz, 1988). Interestingly, there have been suspicions for many years of secondary gain or malingering motivation following injuries of all types, described in law and psychiatric literature under such names as “accident aftermath, litigation or profit neurosis; compensation hysteria; post-accident syndrome; or unconscious malingering” (Mendelson, 1987), so that at least a modicum of skepticism in evaluating postinjury sequelae under litigation is not only prudent but requisite for accurate interpretation of findings.

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Hartlage, L.C. (1998). Clinical Detection of Malingering. In: Reynolds, C.R. (eds) Detection of Malingering during Head Injury Litigation. Critical Issues in Neuropsychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7469-3_8

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