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a tendency to tell extravagant and fantastic falsehoods centered about the storyteller, who often comes to believe in and may act on them.Medical dictionary. 2011.
Pseudologia fantastica — Pseudologia fantastica, mythomania, or pathological lying is one of several terms applied by psychiatrists to the behavior of habitual or compulsive lying.[1][2] It was first described in the medical literature in 1891 by Anton Delbrueck.[2]… … Wikipedia
pseudologia fantastica — … Useful english dictionary
pseudologia — / lōˈji ə/ noun (Gr, falsehood; medicine) Lying in speech or writing (pseudologia fantastica pathological lying, a psychiatric disorder in which the sufferer has an uncontrollable tendency to tell lies and create fantastic stories) • • • Main… … Useful english dictionary
Glossary of psychiatry — In this glossary of psychiatric terms, mostly Greek, secondly French and German and some English terms, as used in psychiatric literature, were defined. We have included many other terms with the passage of time and aim to broaden this article to … Wikipedia
Mythomanie — La mythomanie, également désignée par le terme de pseudologia fantastica, est un terme désignant chez les psychiatres une propension au mensonge compulsif[1],[2]. Le terme a été inventé en 1905 par l aliéniste Ernest Dupré pour entre autres… … Wikipédia en Français
Lie — For other uses, see Lie (disambiguation) A lie (also called prevarication, falsehood) is a type of deception in the form of an untruthful statement, especially with the intention to deceive others. To lie is to state something with disregard to… … Wikipedia
Malingering — Classification and external resources ICD 10 Z76.5 ICD 9 V65.2 MeSH … Wikipedia
Otto Witte — (October 16, 1872 – August 13, 1958) was a circus acrobat and fantasist who said that he managed to be crowned King of Albania. Otto Witte s grave in Ohlsdorf Cemetery, Hamburg In 1913, when Albania broke away from the Ottoman Empire, some… … Wikipedia
Boudewijn Büch — (December 14 1948cite book |last=Kagie |first=Rudie |title=Boudewijn Büch, verslag van een mystificatie |year=2004 |publisher=Prometheus |location=Amsterdam |language=Dutch |isbn=9789044603347 |pages=24] ndash; November 23 2002) was a Dutch… … Wikipedia
Фантазия (fantasy) — Слово «фантазия» обозначает: а) способность к фантазированию, а также б) продукт этой деятельности. Ф. занимает промежуточное место между мышлением и сенсорно перцептивными процессами. Когда разум продуцирует Ф., фантазирующий чел. испытывает… … Психологическая энциклопедия
