Autobiography of a compulsive liar personality

Writings relating to pathological lying first appeared in the psychiatric literature over 100 years ago and have been given names such as "pseudologia fantastica" and "mythomania" and often used interchangeably.

There is some consensus that Dr. Anton Delbruck, a German physician, was the first person to describe the concept of pathological lying in 1891 after publishing an account of five of his patients.

Despite the long history of research, pathological lying is not included in either the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5) or the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10). The only mention of pathological lying in the DSM is in association with Factitious Disorder (discussed below), however, many psychologists and psychiatrists claim that it is a distinct psychiatric disorder, as highlighted in the many papers that have been published on the topic over the last two decades.

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