[A clinical case of mythomania occurring today]

At the beginning of this century, mythomania has been abundantly, described, following clinical observations, often on absurd and foolish subjects, that made the alienists of the period search for quite different etiologies, varying from psychopathology to anatomopathology. Mythomania fell into oblivion after 1940 and a more analytic approach of the mental function did no more revive the interest in the subject, probably because of the few cases met with. Therefore, it seemed interesting to us to study a case of mythomania, one at a time, at the hand of clinical criteria defined by Dupré, but equally with the help of psychological and paraclinical examinations, we can dispose of presently. This patient was going to give us her own written production, being an intimate diary and several letters, what helped us to complete the psychiatrical picture.