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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).
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 ...
In psychiatry, pathological lying (also called compulsive lying, pseudologia fantastica, and mythomania) is a behavior of habitual or compulsive lying. [26] [27] It was first described in the medical literature in 1891 by Anton Delbrueck. [27]
It has been suggested that because kleptomania is linked to strong compulsive and impulsive qualities, it can be viewed as a variation of obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, together with pathological gambling, compulsive buying, pyromania, nailbiting and trichotillomania.
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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 ...
Neither compulsive lying or pathological lying is in the most recent version (DSM V). If DSM III is mentioned, it should probably also be mentioned that pathological lying is not recognized by the most up to date version.