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Malingering meaning
The intentional feigning of an illness or injury for personal gain or to avoid a responsibility, such as work, military service, or legal consequences.
Example sentences (7)
The judge, Leonard Levy SC, noted that Mr Webb’s credibility was “attacked”, with the insurer’s medical experts accusing him of “malingering, exaggerating or embellishing his problems”.
By definition, the malingerer is knowingly deceitful (although malingering itself has also been called a mental illness or disorder).
For example, in lay language, the term often encompasses illnesses with no physical basis at all, and even illnesses that are faked ( malingering ).
He suffered a breakdown due to shell shock (which we now call post-traumatic stress disorder but which was then often thought, by those without first-hand experience of it, to be a species of malingering) and was eventually sent home.
Malingering should be considered if there is possible financial or forensic gain, as well as factitious disorder if help-seeking behavior is prominent.
Nonverbal or "performance" tests were developed for those who could not speak English or were suspected of malingering.
Szasz mentions malingering in many of his works, but it is not what he has in mind to explain many other manifestations of so-called ″mental illness.