Everybody lies. Defining deceit: the language of lying. The biology of deceit. Learning to lie: developmental issues in deceit. Why people lie: the determinants of deceit. Styles of deception: the role of personality. Pathological lying. Living a lie: impostors, con-artists and persons with the Munchausen syndrome. False memories, false accusations, and false confessions. Detection of deceit. Technological detection of deceit. Therapeutic approaches for the deceitful person. Effects of deception. A psychology of deceit: conclusions and summary. Epilogue. References. Index.
Dr. Ford has a wonderful way of telling stories that immediately and precisely make his points in this complete treatment of the human lie. His well organized and deceptively simple prose focuses the reader's attention upon his points so that they are instantly grasped. The alternate, though less compelling title of Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Lying would be accurately descriptive. Russell Gardner Jr., Harry K. Davis Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas, Medical Branch at Galveston This provocative book addresses some highly controversial topics. The richness of clinical material and breadth of scholarship provide interesting insights and perspectives into deceit and lying. This is a book to be read and debated with friends, enemies, and colleagues. Donna E. Stewart, M.D., F.R.C.P.C., Chair, Women's Health at the Toronto Hospital, Professor of Psychiatry, OBGYN, Anesthesia and Surgery, University of Toronto Lies! Lies! Lies! The psychology of Deceit is a masterful, important book. I would heartily recommend it to people at any stage of learning and to anyone interested in how we all participate in deception. Joseph S. Weiner, M.D., Ph.D., Long Island Jewish Medical Center/Hillside Hospital, New Hyde Park, New York
Charles V. Ford, M.D., is Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, at the School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author or co-author of five books and approximately 100 published papers and invited chapters that focus primarily on issues of illness behavior, psychotherapy, the interface between medicine and psychiatry, and disease simulation. His scientific interest in deception began as a result of his contact with psychiatric and medical patients diagnosed as compulsive liars. Through his work he learned what little scientific information there was on the subject.
This book is an extraordinary, well-written treatise on deception
and self-deception. It is provocative and important because it
captures the width and breadth of an ever-present part of human
conditions -- lying.
*Psychiatric Times*
To say that Dr. Ford's book about lying is provocative would be far
from stretching the truth. This is a challenging but nourishing
book, to be read and debated with friends, relatives, and
others.
*Healthline *
Dr. Ford integrates his vast material to produce a coherent view on
the intrapsychic functions of deceit, especially the regulation of
self-esteem, and to delineate the complex interrelation of lying
and self-deception. He has succeeded in a wonderful task: writing a
book that provides fascinating and practical insights for the
psychiatrist, as well as a scholarly work that will appeal to any
intelligent reader interested in the subject.
*Washington Psychiatry*
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