RT Journal
A1 MILLS CK
T1 SImulated insanity
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD October 23
VO LIII
IS 17
SP 1373
OP 1381
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.92550170001001h
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.92550170001001h
AB INTRODUCTION 
    One simulates insanity who, being sane, by his action and speech or by his suppression of both speech and action, tries to prove that he is of unsound mind. One who is insane may also feign the symptoms of a type of insanity from which he does not suffer. For one simply to assert that he is insane, which is occasionally done, does not constitute simulation of insanity. Such assertion must be accompanied by some evidences of the playing of the part in order to constitute feigning. One dissimulates insanity who endeavors to conceal the fact that he is insane. This pretense of sanity by the insane is a far more common procedure than the feigning of insanity by the sane.Well-known historical instances of the feigning of insanity are to be found in the classical works on mental and forensic medicine—the feigning