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Feigned Psychosis—A Review of the Simulation of Mental Illness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

G. G. Hay
G. G. Hay*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of South Manchester, West Didsbury, Manchester M20 8LR
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Summary

The literature on the simulation of psychosis is reviewed and six patients who were thought to be feigning a schizophrenic psychosis were studied. On follow-up, all but one of the patients became overtly schizophrenic. It is argued that the simulation of schizophrenia is a prodromal phase of the psychosis occuring in extremely deviant premorbid personalities.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 143 , Issue 1 , July 1983 , pp. 8 - 10
Copyright
Copyright © 1983 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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