Terms related to Forensic psycology : Malingering:

Thanks for the defintion 📕

A couple of useful articles here, one from BBC News,and gives a great overview of malingering with case histories + a study showing 879 particpants of which about 17.5% were malingering.

In the BBC News article it mentions the Hillside Strangler who managed to fake mental illness blaming his action on an alter Steve. He was found out eventually but unfortunately efforts like these reduce the public patience with genuine individuals whose criminal actions are due to mental illness.

www.bbc.com

“Malingering” – faking a sickness for an ulterior motive – is surprisingly common. Here are some of the ways in which doctors tell real illnesses from false ones.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Incentives to malinger vary greatly dependent on the context, as does the prevalence. Malingering in the medico-legal context of the criminal courts is generally for one of two purposes: to present as incompetent to stand trial or to successfully plead not guilty by reason of insanity. Estimates of …