Malingering, Feigning, and Response Bias in Psychiatric/Psychological Injury

Abstract

Reviews the book, Malingering, Feigning, and Response Bias in Psychiatric/Psychological Injury: Implications for Practice and Court by Gerald Young (see record [rid]2014-07715-000[/rid]). This book focuses throughout on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury/neurocognitive impairment, and pain and disability. The greatest clinical strength of this book is in its earliest sections, which cover the prevalence and definitions of malingering. The book is far from perfect. First and foremost, it seems to have gone largely unedited; there are many grammatical errors, much redundancy, and chapters that are not clearly connected to the topic. Some chapters are almost entirely composed of tables, with minimal discussion of their content. This book provides much food for thought and contains a great deal of content that forensic psychiatrists and psychologists, as well as clinicians, would find helpful. It would be a worthy holding for libraries at academic medical centers, as well as for specialists who frequently encounter feigned presentations of psychopathology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved)