Feigned Psychosis—A Review of the Simulation of Mental Illness
- 1 July 1983
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 143 (1) , 8-10
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.143.1.8
Abstract
Summary: The literature on the simulation of psychosis is reviewed and six patients who were thought to be feigning a schizophrenic psychosis were studied. On follow-up, all but one of the patients became overtly schizophrenic. It is argued that the simulation of schizophrenia is a prodromal phase of the psychosis occuring in extremely deviant premorbid personalities.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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