Editing Primary and secondary gain (section)

{{Short description|Psychoanalytic reason for disease}}
{{other uses|Gain (disambiguation)}}
'''Primary gain''' and '''secondary gain''', and more rarely '''tertiary gain''', are [[Terminology|terms]] used in [[medicine]] and [[psychology]] to describe the significant subconscious [[psychological]] [[motivation|motivators]] patients may have when presenting with symptoms. If these motivators are recognized by the patient, and especially if symptoms are fabricated or exaggerated for personal gain, then this is instead considered [[malingering]]. The difference between primary and secondary gain is that with primary gain, the reason a person may not be able to go to work is because they are injured or ill, whereas with secondary gain, the reason that person is injured or ill is so that they cannot go to work.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR)|publisher=[[American Psychiatric Association]]|year=2000|isbn=9780890420256|location=[[Washington, D.C.]]}}</ref>