Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

 

False Patients/Real Patients: A Spectrum of Disease Presentation

Nadelson T.

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Psychiatry Service, Boston Veterans Administration Medical Center, and Department of Psychiatry, Tufts New England Medical Center, Boston, Mass., USA

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Psychother Psychosom 1985;44:175–184

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Published online: February 17, 2010
Issue release date: 1985

Number of Print Pages: 10
Number of Figures: 0
Number of Tables: 0

ISSN: 0033-3190 (Print)
eISSN: 1423-0348 (Online)

For additional information: https://www.karger.com/PPS

Abstract

This paper presents a synthesis of varying frameworks and value systems in which all patients are viewed by clinicians. A gradient of behaviors is arrayed which places disease simulation (Munchausen syndrome, malingering) at one end of a spectrum, with the other end anchored by ‘real’ disease. Between these two polarized opposites are placed the patients with ‘psychological’ origins to somatic presentations. These patients often called ‘crocks’ are somewhat different from those patients who present with disease simulation. Such patients are often referred to as ‘crooks’ in that they are absolutely false in their presentation and aware of such deception. The advantage of this particular schema is that it presents a gradient of behavior instead of isolated categorization. As such it is much more easily understood and used by clinicians and it presents the ‘normal’ and ‘abnormal’ within a single conceptual gradient instead of discreet categories.

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Article / Publication Details

First-Page Preview
Abstract of Paper

Published online: February 17, 2010
Issue release date: 1985

Number of Print Pages: 10
Number of Figures: 0
Number of Tables: 0

ISSN: 0033-3190 (Print)
eISSN: 1423-0348 (Online)

For additional information: https://www.karger.com/PPS


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