Hysterical liar with peculiarities united with splendid mental ability. Unusually intelligent, 15 years old, illegitimate child; normal mother who later had five sound children; father drunkard. Her lies were neither of suggested nor dreamy type, they were skillfully dramatized means to an end in her fight for social position. In the psychiatric examination she was found mentally normal. Girl thoroughly intelligent, good at figures and puzzles, with no signs of degeneracy. [11] ``Jugendliche Lugnerinnen.'' Zeitschrift fur Erforschung d. jugend. Schwachsinns., Bd.英文原著 · 《Pathology of Lying》