ABSTRACT
In his lying, he is miles away from the confabulant, from the patient suffering from retrospective falsifications, or from the hysterical amnesic. He is even far from the pseudologue. He is a pathological liar, his lying being chiefly opportunistic and defensive and but little compensatory. Much of it is at the conscious or near conscious level. [His] stories represent a conscious attempt to deceive, coupled with a mental incapacity to appreciate the absurdity of his deceptions
