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Simulation of mental disorders.
Simulation of mental disorders, in contrast to Munchausen syndrome and artificial mental disorders (in which no selfish goals are pursued and material benefits are not obtained), is in the nature of deliberate evasion of responsibility for the offense or crime. There are several ways to simulate mental disorders:
- Imitation of behavior and symptoms of mental disorders,
- Providing false information about an alleged mental illness in the anamnesis with the provision of fake documents and instructing relatives who act as witnesses confirming the presence of a mental illness.
- Artificial prolongation of a psychotic disorder, such as reactive psychosis (metasimulation).
- Deliberate exaggeration of the signs of a mental disorder that the patient currently has (aggravation).
Simulation of symptoms includes imitation of dementia, stupor, hallucinations, motor excitement, delirium, memory impairments and other conditions typical for mental disorders. A feature of this kind of simulation is the fact that the patient begins to imitate the signs of a mental disorder that are incompatible in one disease, which is what a psychiatrist needs to identify when establishing the patient's sanity.
The imitation of a mental illness largely depends on the character of the simulator's personality, his intellectual abilities, artistry, interests in life, experienced situations and mental disorders that have ever been seen, which determines the variety of manifestations of the simulation of a mental disorder.
The most effective is the identification of a simulation of a mental disorder in a hospital setting, when the patient is forced to be in the doctor's field of vision all the time, which complicates the simulation and creates situations when the pretender loses vigilance and makes a wrong move.
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