Falsifications in the psychiatric history: a differential diagnosis.
Several types of falsification may be encountered in the clinical setting, including lies, pseudologia fantastica, delusions and confabulations. I will review these phenomena in the psychopathology literature and propose five criteria to facilitate classification of a falsification. I will then present case histories that illustrate the relationship between the type of falsification and the clinical psychiatric diagnosis.
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000425:Alcohol Amnestic Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis; D008192:Deception; D003702:Delusions / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005162:Factitious Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008014:Lie Detection; D008297:Male; D008306:Malingering / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*