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Pathological Lying, Accusation, and Swindling

by William Healy

This work describes and analyzes several cases of pathological behavior. The interest comes not only from the cases themselves, but also from the of-its-time analysis which is mired in what we now know to be wrong thinking about mental illness, sexuality, gender, and race.

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English

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English

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1915

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William Healy

United States, United Kingdom

William Healy was a British-American psychiatrist and criminologist who started the earliest American child guidance clinic, was a pioneer of psychoanalysis in...

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