title: Malingering and malingering-like behavior: some clinical and conceptual issues.
abstract: Malingering phenomena are reconceptualized along a continuum of other-deceptive, and "malingering-like" mixed-deceptive and self-deceptive categories, depending upon the degree of the subject's conscious self-awareness. This schema heuristically expands the malingering concept to include its multivaried range of clinical presentations which are ubiquitously encountered but underdiscussed in the literature.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D003379:Countertransference; D005260:Female; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007298:Insanity Defense; D008297:Male; D008306:Malingering / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D009289:Narcissism; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000523:psychology