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Factitious sexual harassment
1UCLA School of Medicine, USA. schorrig@ucla.edu
The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
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.