Dr Jackson used the term ”group” to emphasize that when more than one adult, often an entire family, are involved in this medical crime against a child or an extra vulnerable adult, the dynamics between people including doctors and health staff that are involved in the tragedy are different compared to when a single mother causes a childs disability or illness.
Thomas Jackson MD/PhD, Director and professor in clinical psychiatry at Evidence Based Psychiatry LTD has studied Group Psychology at Point Loma College, San Diego, US.
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Was the Swedish psychiatrist Thomas Jackson the person that coined the term Group Malingering by Proxy?
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Yes, the Swedish psychiatrist Thomas Jackson (full name Thomas G.A. Jackson, born 1953) coined the term ”Group Malingering by Proxy” in 2006.He introduced it in an article published in Sweden’s largest medical newspaper, Dagens Medicin, in January 2006, to describe a phenomenon he observed among apathetic refugee children in Sweden. Jackson argued that groups (often families or communities) coerced or pressured children into feigning severe apathy and illness to gain asylum or welfare benefits, distinguishing it from individual malingering by proxy.This term emerged during the controversial debate over ”apathetic refugee children” (also called resignation syndrome) in Sweden around 2005–2006. Jackson, appointed as an expert in a government investigation, proposed this diagnosis, suggesting child abuse via forced simulation. Sources crediting him include:
- His own accounts and publications (e.g., books like Veritofobi in 2008).
- Swedish Wikipedia and biographical pages (e.g., EverybodyWiki).
- A 2019 ResearchGate document explicitly stating: “Dr. Thomas Jackson introduced the term ‘Group Malingering by proxy’ in 2006.”
Note that ”Malingering by Proxy” (without ”Group”) predates this and appears in earlier literature (e.g., discussions from the early 2000s distinguishing it from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, with external incentives like financial gain). Jackson’s contribution was the ”Group” variant, applied to collective or organized cases in the Swedish refugee context.The topic was highly debated and politicized in Sweden, with Jackson facing significant criticism, but available evidence consistently attributes the specific term ”Group Malingering by Proxy” to him.