Effectiveness of the forced-choice coin test for detecting malingering during forensic psychiatric examinations.

Background: In general clinical psychiatric practice, open questions are favored over closed ones because they are considered more therapeutically effective and less likely to make the patients pander to us. However, in forensic psychiatric examinations, suspects may attempt malingering.

Case Presentation: Using a simple examination based on a forced-choice technique, the author proved that the level of intelligence of a theft suspect pretending to have an intellectual developmental disorder was not so low.