A Case of Pseudologia Fantastica with Antisocial Personality Disorder

1 October 1991

journal article
case report
Published by SAGE Publications in The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry

Vol. 36 (8) , 612-614
https://doi.org/10.1177/070674379103600814

Abstract

A case of pseudologia fantastica with antisocial personality disorder is described. It is important to obtain previous admission records as early as possible so patients can be confronted with the discrepancies in their history. The concept of pathological lying is discussed.

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