Recently, experts have come to view lying as a pathological mental problem. Pathological lying is known as the falsification of oneself, engaged by a person who cannot completely be declared insane. A pathological liar does not fall within these categories, instead he finds himself in his own box. People who are pathological liars are not completely insane, they make false pretenses for obvious purposes that benefit themselves. Dr. Herman Alder, a crime psychiatrist and the head of the Department of Criminology at The Medical College of the University of Illinois, believes that “Pathological lying is a type of delinquency, and…for an explanation of conduct tendencies one must go to the youthful beginnings and have attempted to gain the fullest
