compulsive lying

2. "The best lies about me are the ones
I told”
Patrick Rothfuss
The name of the wind

3. Pseudolog
ia
Fantastica

4.  Pathological/ Compulsive lying
“falsification entirely disproportionate to any
discernible end in view, may be extensive and
very complicated, and may manifest over a
period of years or even a lifetime”
Definition :

5.  Prevalence : 1 in 1000 repeat juvenile
offenders
 The average age of onset : 16 years
( when the level of intelligence is average or above
average)
 Equal in both genders
Epidemiology

6.  Individuals have shown above level verbal
skills as opposed to performance abilities.
 Grown in a chaotic home environment,
where a parent or family member had a
mental disturbance (30%)

40% of cases : History of CNS abnormality
(Epilepsy, abnormal EEG findings, ADHD, head
trauma, or CNS infection,…)
Epidemiology(cont.)

7. Characteristics :
 The stories told are usually dazzling or fantastical,
but never breach the limits of plausibility.
 Not a manifestation of delusion or some broader
type of psychosis
( upon confrontation, the teller can admit them to be
untrue, even if unwillingly)

9.  The stories told tend toward presenting
the liar favorably.
 The liar “decorates their own person” by
telling stories that present them as the
hero or the victim.

10. can be very difficult because:
- it has not been recognized as a disorder in the
DSM.
- Excessive lying is a common symptom to several
mental disorders but pathological liars do not
necessarily possess characteristics of those disorders.
Diagnosis :

11. No pharmaceutical medication
Psychotherapy is effective
Treatment :

12. Atkinson & Hilgard’s introduction to psychology
Pathological lying: symptom or disorder?, Charles C.
Dike, Psychiatrictimes.com
Pathological liars treatment, Michael Lee,
slideshare.net
Factitious mental disorders, Uky.edu
Pathological lying,Wikipedia.org
References :