![]() ![]() Since she was supervised by social services, she began monitoring for Mental Health since she presented impulsivity, aggressiveness, lack of assertiveness, affective fluctuations and behavioral alterations, even attacking the monitors of her home.Īs the patient reported abuses, the Forensic Doctor decided to notify the psychiatrist on duty to provide more information about the patient's psychopathological status and because he suspects possible lying in the testimony. She has not had medical history of interest, menarche at age 12 and denies toxic consumption. According to the information that we have on behalf of social services, the patient is an only child, her parents suffer from mental disorder due to the use of polysubstances and refused custody. She shares an apartament with four other adolescents and describe adaptation problems since their arrival. She went to the ER accompanied by two monitors of the protected floor where she resides. ![]() Her guardianship is exercised by the State and she lives in a sheltered apartment in town, to which she has recently been transferred. Case reportĪ 15-year-old woman who was referred to the ER after claiming been sexually abused. 3In the reported case, fantastical pseudology is illustrated as a manifestation of infantile testimony followed by discussion of its characteristics and the possible differential diagnosis. 2According to Delbrück, the fantastical pseudology would be 'The urgent to pathological lying and exaggeration' and for Dupré, 'mythomania' is defined as' Constitutional tendency to the alteration of truth, to fabulation, to lie and to the creation of imaginary fables', so both terms are used as synonyms. 1Fantastical pseudology goes by multiple different names including pathologic lying and mythomania. An important clinical and forensic aspect in the evaluation of these children is due to the credibility of the children's testimony. The purpose of the evaluation may be clinical, to determine if the child has an emotional disorder and the reason for this disorder or forensic, to determine if the abuse occurred and who might be the abuser. Psychiatrists are often requested for medical examination to assess children who may have been physically or sexually abused. ![]()
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