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Acute Catathymic Homicides
Published in Louis B. Schlesinger, Sexual Murder, 2021
Kleptomania is not an impulse-control disorder. Rather than being a spontaneous, impulsive reaction to an external stimulus, kleptomania is the result of an internal drive (or urge) to steal objects not needed for personal use or for monetary gain. Pyromania, a need to set fires, often for psychosexual gratification, is also a result of an internal drive to act rather than being a behavior triggered by an external event or circumstance. Both kleptomania and pyromania are not impulses; they are the result of internal pressure to commit the act, which is usually well thought out and planned. Accordingly, their placement under impulse-control disorders in the DSM is unhelpful, confusing, and incorrect.
Psychiatric Disorders
Published in Walter F. Stanaszek, Mary J. Stanaszek, Robert J. Holt, Steven Strauss, Understanding Medical Terms, 2020
Walter F. Stanaszek, Mary J. Stanaszek, Robert J. Holt, Steven Strauss
Additional disorders falling into the realm of this area include eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia (which are discussed in the chapter on nutrition); sleep disorders such as Kleine-Levin syndrome (recurrent periods of prolonged sleep), hypersomnia (excessive sleeping), narcolepsy, and somniloquy (sleepwalking); and compulsive behaviors such as kleptomania (stealing) or pyromania (setting fires).
Diagnosing Tourette syndrome
Published in Carlotta Zanaboni Dina, Mauro Porta, James F. Leckman, Understanding Tourette Syndrome, 2019
Carlotta Zanaboni Dina, Mauro Porta
Impulse control disorder is present in 23–40% of TS patients (Table 3.4). It may include, in order of frequency, from more frequent to less: intermittent explosive disorder (i.e. excessive outbursts of anger and violence; the involuntary nature of the aggression is clear when, after the episode, the patient feels guilty and apologises).compulsive buying (or shopping, which may be linked with Internet addiction).pathological gambling (more often in adult patients because of the law’s restriction for its use in children).Internet addiction (i.e. excessive web surfing).kleptomania (i.e. stealing as the main pathological action).pyromania (i.e. setting things on fire as the main pathological action).sexual compulsion (i.e. pathological sexual attitude).
Kleptomania as a neglected disorder in psychiatry
Published in International Review of Psychiatry, 2020
Julio Torales, Israel González, João Mauricio Castaldelli-Maia, Antonio Ventriglio
Distinguishing between kleptomania and common shoplifting is frequently a difficult endeavour. The use of the Structured Clinical Interview for Kleptomania (SCI-K) reports high sensitivity and specificity and its use can help the mental health provider in reaching an accurate diagnosis (Grant et al., 2006). Kleptomania is a rare disorder, to be differentiated by comparatively common behaviours. Also, patients with kleptomania do not steal for personal gain, looking instead for symptomatic relief, and the behaviour is considered to be markedly ego-dystonic (Grant et al., 2012).