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Book review
Malingering and illness deception
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Edited by Peter Halligan, Christopher Bass, David Oakley. Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003, £35.00, pp 362. ISBN 0-19-851554-5
This excellent book gets off to a cracking start. The introductory chapter by the editors lays out the evidence that many of our patients may be deceiving us, and that much of this deception may be conscious. We are introduced to several major themes of the book, including the debate as to whether or not malingering should be identified as a psychiatric disorder, a disorder …