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Factitious sexual harassment.

@article{FeldmanSchorrig1996FactitiousSH,
  title={Factitious sexual harassment.},
  author={S Feldman-Schorrig},
  journal={The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law},
  year={1996},
  volume={24 3},
  pages={
          387-92
        }
}
  • S. Feldman-Schorrig
  • Published 1 September 1996
  • Psychology
  • The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
Among those claims that trivialize true sexual harassment is a type that the author has come to recognize as factitious (i.e., prompted by the lure of victim status). Women who file factitious sexual harassment cases usually voice their allegations in a very convincing manner and, in the presence of contradictory findings, present a diagnostic challenge. Forensic clinicians must be able to recognize factitious sexual harassment in order to bring objectivity to these complex cases. 
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The Psychodynamics of Factitious Sexual Harassment Claims
Abstract False allegations of sexual harassment in the workplace can be made for a variety of reasons, some of which may fall into the realm of ‘factitious’ claims. Factitious sexual harassment…
Addressing bias in the forensic assessment of sexual harassment claims.
  • L. Gold
  • Psychology
    The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
  • 1998
This article addresses unique biases that arise in the assessment of sexual harassment claims by forensic psychiatrists. These include gender biases, diagnostic biases, sociopolitical biases, and…
Evaluating Sexual Harassment: Psychological, Social, and Legal Considerations in Forensic Examinations
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Can Law Address Intersectional Sexual Harassment? The Case of Claimants with Personality Disorders
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Factitious Disorder in a Patient Claiming to be a Sexually Sadistic Serial Killer
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A case of factitious homicidal ideation.
TLDR
The case of a patient who was civilly committed on numerous occasions for protracted periods based solely on his self-professed homicidal ideation raises both forensic and clinical questions and reinforces the authors' belief that further investigation is needed to develop more sophisticated methods of detection, evaluation, and treatment of factitious disorder with psychological symptoms.
The Notion of Truth and Our Evolving Understanding of Sexual Harassment.
  • P. Recupero
  • Law
    The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
  • 2018
TLDR
Forensic psychiatrists must strive to uphold the values of respect for persons in the search for the truth in determinations of truth.
The Linkages Between Gender and Victimhood
  • A. Heru
  • Psychology, Sociology
    The International journal of social psychiatry
  • 2001
TLDR
It is argued that identification as a victim is the first step in identifying the need for services and is relevant to psychiatry because psychiatric patients often describe themselves, or are described as victims.
The relationship between prior sexual abuse and reactions to sexual harrassment: Literature review and empirical study.
This article examines whether individuals who have had prior sexual abuse experiences, including sexual harassment (SH) and child sexual abuse, are hypersensitive to potential SH-related stimuli or…
Sexual Harassment and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Damages Beyond Prior Abuse
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Findings lend further evidence that claims of PTSD from sexual harassment may be credible even if claimants have been victims of other forms of trauma.
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