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The romantic fictions of the mythomaniac are fascinating in the conviction they arouse in others and in the ambiguous connections their author keeps with reality. When behind his fables, Mr D. reveals a demand for love, it essentially represents a desperate search of identity realized through stories he successively tests with us. So, confronting him without any therapeutical support to the imaginary nature of his productions would just mean depriving him of any possible meaning.