pseudomania

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Next to the selfish lie for protection -- of special psychological interest for adolescent crime -- is what we may call pseudomania, seen especially in pathological girls in their teens, who are honeycombed with selfishness and affectation and have a passion for always acting

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  1. A condition resembling mania. G. S. Ball, Adolescence, I.352.
  2. A mental disease characterized by self-accusation of crimes never committed.
  3. An uncontrollable impulse to practise deceit.

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  • Next to the selfish lie for protection -- of special psychological interest for adolescent crime -- is what we may call pseudomania, seen especially in pathological girls in their teens, who are honeycombed with selfishness and affectation and have a passion for always acting —  Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
 

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  1. New Latin, from Greek ψευδής, false, + μανία, madness.
 

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