A 39-year-old woman claims that she injured her hand at work. She asses that the pain caused by her injury prevents her from working. She has no fuher hand problems after she receives a Rs1 Lakh workers’ compensation settlement. This clinical presentation is an example of
Correct Answer: malingering
Description: This presentation is an example of malingering, feigning illness for obvious gain (the Rs 1 lakh workers' compensation settlement). Evidence for this is that the woman has no fuher hand problems after she receives the money. In conversion disorder, somatization disorder, factitious disorder, and factitious disorder by proxy there is no obvious or material gain related to the symptoms
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