Malingering and illness deception / edited by Peter W. Halligan, Christopher Bass, and David A. Oakley.

New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

xii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Wilful deception as illness behaviour / Peter W. Halligan, Christopher Bass, and David A. Oakley -- Malingering : historical perspectives / Simon Wessely -- Malingering, shirking, and self-inflicted injuries in the military / Ian P. Palmer -- Can monkeys malinger? / Richard W. Byrne and Emma Stokes -- Conceptual issues and explanatory models of malingering / Richard Rogers and Craig S. Neumann -- The social cognition of intentional action / Bertram F. Malle -- Malingering and criminal behaviour as psychopathology / Adrian Raine -- Alternatives to four clinical and research traditions in malingering detection / David Faust -- Characteristics of the sick role / Lindsay Prior and Fiona Wood -- The contemporary cultural context for deception and malingering in Britain / W. Peter Robinson -- Illness falsification in children : pathways to prevention? / Judith A. Libow -- Distinguishing malingering from psychiatric disorders / Michael Sharpe -- The nature of chronic pain : a clinical and legal challenge / Chris J. Main -- The misadventures of wanderers and victims of trauma / Loren Pankratz -- When the quantity of mercy is strained : U.S. physicians' deception of insurers for patients / Matthew K. Wynia -- Law, lies, and videotape : malingering as a legal phenomenon / Michael A. Jones -- Outcome-related compensation : in search of a new paradigm / George Mendelson -- Malingering and the law : a third way? / Alan Sprince -- How can organizations prevent illness deception among employees? / Charles Baron and Jon Poole -- Lying as an executive function / Sean Spence ... [et al.] -- Differential brain activations for malingered and subjectively 'real' paralysis / David A. Oakley ... [et al.] -- Origins, practice, and limitations of disability assessment medicine / Mansel Aylward -- Malingering, insurance medicine, and the medicalization of fraud / John LoCascio -- Investigating benefit fraud and illness deception in the United Kingdom / Richard Kitchen -- Neuropsychological tests and techniques that detect malingering / Richard I. Frederick -- Misrepresentation of pain and facial expression / Kenneth D. Craig and Marilyn Hill -- Deceptive responses and detecting deceit / Aldert Vrij and Samantha Mann.

Includes bibliographical references and index.