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Originally Posted by ultramar
I think that the faking of psychological problems in itself would be indicative of a need for psychological treatment, anyway. It's kind of like they're just making their issues more visible - whether consciously or not.
Very true, I agree --but what I wonder is how is a therapist going to know that this is going on in the first place, in order to best treat the underlying issues? Or would therapists figure it out on their own, and go on to treat the underlying problems unbeknownst to the patient?
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I think in some cases this 'faking' can be spotted fairly easily - like was said earlier in the thread about someone 'fainting', but in other cases it may be more difficult to pick up on - although perhaps the therapist would start to notice patterns of behaviour, etc...
In a way I'm not sure how much it would matter, in that I would hope that a competent therapist would get to the root of the issues, and that therefore any negative behaviours would as a result hopefully subside, as they were symptomatic of the underlying problem?
(ETA: underlying issues that would come up and be recognised in the course of the therapy, by talking and working through them, not 'unbeknownst' to the client.)