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[Mythomania: an identity quest]
1Service de Psychiatrie et de Psychologie Médicale, Hôpital Universitaire Brugmann, Bruxelles.
Acta Psychiatrica Belgica
|September 1, 1993
Abstract:
The romantic fictions of the mythomaniac are fascinating in the conviction they arouse in others and in the ambiguous connections their author keeps with reality. When behind his fables, Mr D. reveals a demand for love, it essentially represents a desperate search of identity realized through stories he successively tests with us. So, confronting him without any therapeutical support to the imaginary nature of his productions would just mean depriving him of any possible meaning.