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Malingering In Forensic Psychiatry Evaluation
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This case report is about one of the types of factitious disorders. The clinical vignette of the case is too short to understand it in more specific terms. Details are required. Factitious disorders including malingering is common among patients with legal problems. Patients with malingering fake physical or psychological symptoms or present with a mix, which are precisely identified by the evaluator because they have explicit motives behind faking symptoms consciously, unlike Munchausen syndrome. We believe that this case report is important because it is from Middle East country, the data from this part of the world on factitious disorders is sparse. However, the case presentation and discussion is poorly written.
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Competing interests:
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Have you previously published on this or a similar topic?:
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Munchausen's syndrome case report published in Indian J Psychiatry -
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- How to cite: Qureshi N A.Malingering In Forensic Psychiatry Evaluation[Review of the article 'Malingering In Forensic Psychiatry Evaluation ' by Marashi S].WebmedCentral 2011;3(1):WMCRW001325
This is a case study. It requires validation, which is grossly missing in this paper. So the reliability of the interpretation is questionable. Validation with data is therefore needed.
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I am working on mental health over 10 years.