A. Poletaev. Simulative illnesses in prisoners. Vestn. societies. hygiene, judicial and practical. medicine. Forensic psychiatry. July, 1908

Abstract

The author, in a rather concise essay, examines, on the basis of 20 years of observation, feigning illnesses in prisoners and says that the latter simulate diseases of all organs and systems, except for acute infectious diseases. No feigning illnesses were observed in children. Men seem to feign more often than women; untried men and women more often feign than other categories of prisoners in order to extend the time before the trial, and in the meantime to discuss their investigative case in more detail before the trial, in a word, to utilize everything around them for their own benefit by their imaginary illness.

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