O SUJEITO SIMULADOR NA AVALIAÇÃO PSICOLÓGICA FORENSE

Authors

  • Francisco Valente Gonçalves University of Leicester Department of Criminology
  • António Pires ISPA-IU, Portugal
  • Ângela Vila-Real ISPA-IU

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21527/2176-6622.2017.47.332-349

Abstract

A simulação é um dos comportamentos mais esperados e observados durante uma avaliação psicológica em contexto forense. A perspetiva teórica dos profissionais condiciona o seu foco clínico e métodos a aplicar. Contudo uma visão rígida poderá condicionar uma recolha de maior qualidade sobre o sujeito avaliado. Procurou-se analisar a literatura referente a dois conceitos associados ao comportamento de simulação, o conceito de impostor, referido pela teoria psicanalítica, e o conceito malingering, fundamentado por uma perspetiva cognitivo-comportamental. Assim, realizou-se uma revisão dos pressupostos considerados numa avaliação psicológica em âmbito forense, da noção de inimputabilidade no sistema jurídico português e dos conceitos impostor e malingering. O objetivo é o de juntar esforços e promover a interação dos profissionais de psicologia forense, ainda que, com quadros teóricos de referência distintos. Será a articulação de mais saberes que proporcionará uma compreensão de maior qualidade sobre os fenómenos em que o sujeito simulador está circunscrito? As conclusões sugerem a necessidade de olhar e analisar o sujeito através de diferentes perspetivas a fim de melhor categorizar e compreender os traços de comportamento associados ao comportamento de simulação e ao funcionamento psíquico do sujeito simulador.

Palavras-chave: Avaliação psicológica forense, simulação, malingering.

Author Biography

Francisco Valente Gonçalves, University of Leicester Department of Criminology

Francisco Valente Gonçalves is a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher focused on Human Factors in Forensic Sciences, such as bias decision-making analysis. His main theme will be held in fingerprint examination and the impact of contextual information during analysis. He undertook his BSc in Psychological Sciences between Portugal (ISPA-IU) and Spain (Universitat de Valencia), having worked as an undergraduate researcher during this degree. Also took his MSc in Portugal (ISPA-IU) in Psychocriminology having worked in the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences as an intern. His MSc dissertation focused on psychological assessment in forensic context. Also has completed this year a specialization in clinical intervention within the Mental Health service of Santa Maria’s Hospital in Lisboa.

Before went to Leicester he worked in risk contexts on topics as sexual abuse, addictions and personality disorders as a clinical psychologist with children, youths and adults and as a forensic psychologist in Leiria’s Prison. He’s enrolled in scientific societies (The Chartered Forensic Society, International Association for Forensic Institutes, Sociedade Portuguesa de Psiquiatria e Psicologia da Justiça) and he is also an effective member of the Portuguese Psychologist Board.

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Published

2017-09-21

How to Cite

Gonçalves, F. V., Pires, A., & Vila-Real, Ângela. (2017). O SUJEITO SIMULADOR NA AVALIAÇÃO PSICOLÓGICA FORENSE. Revista Direito Em Debate, 26(47), 332–349. https://doi.org/10.21527/2176-6622.2017.47.332-349

Issue

Vol. 26 No. 47 (2017)

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