A Review of Rey's Strategies for Detecting Malingered Neuropsychological Impairment

André Rey was a pioneer in clinical psychology, child clinical psychology, and neuropsychology. His contributions to the understanding of brain-behavior relationships were novel, creative, and highly regarded. Rey developed many eponymous tests and procedures. Three are relatively well known in American neuropsychological literature as “tests of malingering”: The Rey 15-Item Memory Test (RMT), the Rey Word Recognition Test (WRT), and the Rey Dot Counting Test (DCT), referred to collectively in this paper as the “Rey malingering tests.” By citing his original work, this article reports Rey's method of assessing the validity of clinical presentation, his instructional sets for each test, and his process of interpreting test results. Additionally, this article reviews published research regarding the efficacy of the Rey malingering tests as they have been used in thiscountry. Most instructional sets and interpretive strategies generally have not followed Rey, but have followed those represented as Rey's by Lezak (1983,1995).