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Can a pathological liar be cured? with Drew Curtis, PhD, and Christian L. Hart, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

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Are You a Pathological Liar?

There's a documentary that just launched on Netflix about Bernie Madoff, who pulled off the biggest investment Ponzi scheme that we have ever seen. These types of frauds where you rob Peter to pay Paul, as they say, are arguably a form of lying. Would you view people who perpetrate these type of frauds as pathological liars? I think it's probably in many cases we're looking at something more along the lines of an antisocial personality disorder rather than what Drew and I would conceptualize as pathological liar.

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