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Curtis and Hart (2020) defined pathological lying as "a persistent, pervasive, and often compulsive pattern of excessive lying behavior that leads to clinically significant impairment of functioning in social, occupational, or other areas; causes marked distress; poses a risk to the self or others; and occurs for longer than 6 months" (p. 63).
Arrogant and deceitful interpersonal style: impression management or superficial charm, inflated and grandiose sense of self-worth, pathological lying/deceit, and manipulation for personal gain. Deficient affective experience : lack of remorse or guilt, shallow affect (coldness and unemotionality), callousness and lack of empathy, and failure ...
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WebMD notes that there is a difference between dishonesty and pathological lying. Usually, there’s a clear reason for lying, some goal that the individual is trying to achieve. However ...
In psychiatry, pathological lying (also called compulsive lying, pseudologia fantastica, and mythomania) is a behavior of habitual or compulsive lying. [25] [26] It was first described in the medical literature in 1891 by Anton Delbrueck. [26]
It was previously assumed that people with antisocial personality disorder were natural-born liars — that something about the way their brains are wired made them inherently better at deceiving ...
The related syndrome of psychopathy also features pathological lying and manipulation for personal gain, as well as superficial charm, as cardinal features. [ 3 ] Borderline personality disorder is unique in the grouping as "borderline" manipulation is characterized as unintentional and dysfunctional manipulation. [ 27 ]
Feb. 8—Drew Curtis, director of the nationally recognized Master of Science in counseling psychology degree program at Angelo State University will speak about Pathological Lying: Science and ...