Listening to voices: The use of phenomenology to differentiate malingered from genuine auditory verbal hallucinations

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 183-189

  McCarthy Jones, Simon ^a   Resnick, Phillip J ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hearing voices; Insanity defense; Malingering; Psychosis; Sanity; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMAN; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MALINGERING; MENTAL CAPACITY; PSYCHOLOGY;

HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; INSANITY DEFENSE; MALINGERING; MENTAL COMPETENCY; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 84893860846     PISSN: 01602527     EISSN: 18736386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2013.11.004     Document Type: Article

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