Contemporary anthropology deals with a lot of topics that go beyond the traditional area of anthropological research. However, the problem of lying remains on themargins of anthropological analysis, although lying is generally considered to be an everyday factor in the life of many people. In this article, the author considers the possible reasons for this neglect. She argues that the omission cannot be explained in terms of the apparent lack of connection between lying and socio-cultural factors, but rather by the difficulty of conducting research on lying from the perspective of anthropology. Then she discusses her own approach to the study of lying, which she applied in researching the community of the Catholic Crisis Intervention Center. In this regard, she refers to Els van Dongen’s and Sylvie Fainzang’s idea, which emerged on the basis of medical anthropology.