PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Feldman-Schorrig, Sara TI - Factitious Sexual Harassment DP - 1996 Sep 01 TA - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online PG - 387--392 VI - 24 IP - 3 4099 - http://jaapl.org/content/24/3/387.short 4100 - http://jaapl.org/content/24/3/387.full SO - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law1996 Sep 01; 24 AB - 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.