pseudologia


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pseudologia

(ˌsjuːdəˈləʊdʒɪə)
n
(Psychology) a psychological condition in which a patient tells elaborate, false stories believing them to be true
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Se pueden anadir tambien la mentira patologica y la pseudologia fantastica.
THE individual suffering from Pseudologia Fantastica is apathological liar who lies compulsively and impulsively.
Pseudologia: Formen und Funktionen fiktionaler Trugrede in der griechischen Literatur der Antike, Heidelberg: Winter.
Pseudologia fantastica, a fascinating psychiatric syndrome where patients represent certain fantasies as real occurrences, has received little attention in the English literature: there are fewer than thirty case reports in the English literature.
If we were to look for a psychiatric diagnosis here, the closest term for this would be pseudologia fantastica, a syndrome that would apply to mentally disturbed people who believe in their own stories and fabrications.
"Pseudologia Fantastica: A Curious Need to Falsify, Disguise or Destroy the Story of Your Life." Disillusionment: Spring 58: A Journal of Archetype and Culture Spring (1995): 83-102.
In addition, we determine Reverend R has pseudologia fantastica, a rarely seen form of pathological lying characterized by telling elaborate lies that may have a kernel of truth (Table 3).
Kaga, whose real name is Sadataka Kogi, said Nishiyama overlooked Asahara's basic tendency to create fantasies and tell lies, a characteristic medically known as pseudologia phantastica.
Whether girls fabricated incestuous sex, or incestuous sex actually occurred, an Oedipal desire was transformed into an act: in one case it was transformed into "pseudologia" or a lie, through the act of speech, in the other, it was consciously pursued through sexual "acting out." (52) These girls, according to this postwar perspective, had managed to take their incestuous fantasies and transform them into a conscious, deliberate forms of experience.

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