• SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION ; 1. Wilful deception as illness behaviour ; SECTION 2: HISTORICAL, MILITARY AND EVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS ; 2. Malingering: historical perspectives ; 3. Malingering, shirking and self-inflicted injuries in the military ; 4. Can monkeys malinger? ; SECTION 3: CONCEPTUAL, METHODOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT ; 5. Conceptual issues and explanatory models of malingering ; 6. The social cognition of intentional action ; 7. Malingering and criminal behaviour as psychopathology ; 8. Alternatives to four clinical and research traditions in malingering detection ; 9. Characteristics of the sick role ; 10. The contemporary cultural context for deception and malingering in Britain ; SECTION 4: ILLNESS DECEPTION AND CLINICAL PRACTICE ; 11. Illness falsification in children: pathways to prevention? ; 12. Distinguishing malingering from psychiatric disorders ; 13. The nature of chronic pain: a clinical and legal challenge ; 14. The misadventures of wanderers and victims of traumas ; 15. When the quantity of mercy is strained: US physicians' deception of insurers for patients ; SECTION 5: MEDICOLEGAL AND OCCUPATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ; 16. Law, lies and videotape: malingering as a legal phenomenon ; 17. Outcome related compensation: in search of a new paradigm ; 18. Malingering and the law: a third way? ; 19. How can organisations prevent illness deception among employees? ; SECTION 6: CONTRIBUTIONS FROM COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE ; 20. Lying as an executive function ; 21. Differential brain activations for malingered and subjectively 'real' paralysis ; SECTION 7: DISABILITY ANALYSIS AND INSURANCE MEDICINE ; 22. Origins, practice and limitiations of Disability Assessment Medicine ; 23. Malingering, insurance medicine and the medicalization of fraud ; SECTION 8: DECEPTION DETECTION ; 24. Investigating benefit fraud and illness deception in the United Kingdom ; 25. Neuropsychological tests and techniques that detect malingering ; 26. Misrepresentation of pain and facial expression ; 27. Deceptive responses and detecting deceit

. . . [this book] handles a difficult, and emotive, matter with masterful neutrality and objectivity. The theoretical concepts are well explained and research data is allowed to speak for itself . . . important reading for all practitioners who are called upon to make medical judgements which influence a patient's access to an illness entitlement: for example, insurance claims, sickness certification or pensions assessments.