ABSTRACT

The following case study is unique in that I had the opportunity to evaluate this worker’s compensation claimant twice: initially in 1987, prior to the veritable explosion of research on malingering, and again in 1996. In the intervening nine years, the seminal publications by Hiscock and Hiscock (1989) and Binder (1990, 1993) established forced choice methodology for the evaluation of malingering. Moreover, the decade of 1990 to 2000 resulted in a ten-fold increase in publications on forensic neuropsychology, with most of these papers focusing on evaluation of malingering (Sweet, King, Malina, Bergman, & Simmons, 2002). As the data will show, the diagnosis changed from the first evaluation to the second, largely as a result of a change in zeitgeist in neuropsychological assessment consequent to advances in research on malingering.