Structural Psychology Of Chronic Habitual Lying: An Integrated Multidisciplinary Theoretical Framework

This theoretical article conceptualizes Chronic Habitual Lying as a Psychological Structure rather than merely a behavioral pattern or moral decision. Integrating perspectives from Psychiatry, Behavioral Psychology, Neuroscience, Evolutionary Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Sociology, Clinical Psychiatry and Developmental Psychology, the article frames habitual lying as an Identity-Based Life Structure. It proposes Structural Dynamics to explain persistence and resistance to change through four mechanisms: Structural Rigidity, Compromised Reality Testing, the Feedback Loop of Emptiness and Structural Fragility. The synthesis suggests chronic lying is not inherently a psychiatric disorder but a Structural Psychological Condition, becoming a psychiatric disorder when combined with Personality Pathology, Systematic Harm to Others, Lack of Remorse and Severe Impairment in Social Functioning, consistent with DSM-5-TR framing.