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The 12 pages that link to Malingering, each with the reason it gives.

• HypnosisCompared with: Hypnotic behavior may look unusual, but it does not establish deliberate deception.

• Functional neurological disorderCompared with: FND symptoms are not assumed to be deliberately produced; the diagnosis rests on clinical findings.

• Somatic symptom disorderCompared with: This diagnosis does not require intentional symptom production or an external reward.

• Psychosomatic medicineCompared with: Psychosomatic symptoms are not defined by deliberate fabrication, unlike malingering.

• Dissociative identity disorderCompared with: Assessment may consider deliberate symptom production without treating it as inherent to the disorder.

• Factitious disorderCompared with: External gain distinguishes malingering from the defining motivation of factitious disorder.

• Conversion disorderCompared with: Functional symptoms are not defined by deliberate deception or pursuit of an external reward.

• Dissociative amnesiaCompared with: Dissociative amnesia is not defined by deliberate fabrication or an external reward.

• Psychogenic non-epileptic seizureCompared with: PNES episodes are involuntary and are not equivalent to intentional symptom fabrication.

• KleptomaniaCompared with: Kleptomania involves recurrent urges, not a deliberate claim of symptoms for external gain.

• Ganser syndromeCompared with: Distinguishing deliberate symptom production from Ganser syndrome is difficult and cannot rest on unusual answers alone.