de Coulon, Nicolas

The End of Lying - 2015.


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The clinical treatment of lying covers a broad spectrum from the affirmation of psychic autonomy to paralysing mythomania. The case presented demonstrates a movement that leads from a borderline crisis functioning to an emergence from lying, revealing a more hysterical problematic. The elements discussed concern the chiasmus between hysteria and borderline states and the antisocial tendency, accessible by regression.(Traduction de Sophie Leighton.)