![]() Confabulation: This is where people tell lies incessantly as a way of covering up memory lapses caused by specific memory loss conditions (e.g., organically derived amnesia).Unlike "archetypal" pathological liars, malingerers are typically motivated to tell lies for a specific purpose, such as to obtain financial compensation, to avoid working, to avoid military service, to avoid criminal prosecution, etc. ![]() ![]() Malingering: This is deliberate lying where the person grossly exaggerates or totally lies about physical and/or psychological symptoms.However, it is evident that no single descriptive tableau of a pathological liar settles all the nosological and etiological questions raised by the phenomenon of pathological lying.” (p.344) ![]() “Pathological liars can believe their lies to the extent that, at least to others, the belief may appear to be delusional they generally have sound judgment in other matters it is questionable whether pathological lying is always a conscious act and whether pathological liars always have control over their lies an external reason for lying (such as financial gain) often appears absent and the internal or psychological purpose for lying is often unclear the lies in pathological lying are often unplanned and rather impulsive the pathological liar may become a prisoner of his or her lies the desired personality of the pathological liar may overwhelm the actual one pathological lying may sometimes be associated with criminal behavior the pathological liar may acknowledge, at least in part, the falseness of the tales when energetically challenged and, in pathological lying, telling lies may often seem to be an end in itself. ![]()
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