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Malingering phenomena are reconceptualized along a continuum of other-deceptive, and “malingering-like” mixed-deceptive and self-deceptive categories, depending upon the degree of the subject's conscious self-awareness. This schema heuristically expands the malingering concept to include its multivaried range of clinical presentations which are ubiquitously encountered but underdiscussed in the literature.
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Travin, S., Protter, B. Malingering and malingering-like behavior: Some clinical and conceptual issues. Psych Quart 56, 189–197 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01065010
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