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 DEFINITION
The kleptomania is a disorder of the control of the impulses which essential characteristic is the difficulty appellant to control the impulses of stealing any object, even if it is not necessary for the personal use or for his economic value.
HOW IS IT EVIDENT?
The individual experiences a sensation of increasing tension before the theft, followed by well-being, gratification or liberation when it carries out it. The theft is not committed to express rage or for revenge because in this case it would be another disorder. The objects are stolen although they have value small for the individual, who would have means to acquire them and that often gets rid of them and does not use them. Sometimes, it accumulates them or returns them suddenly.
Although the persons with this disorder will avoid to steal when an immediate arrest is probable (for example, in the presence of a police officer official), they neither plan the thefts nor take measures adapted to avoid the possibilities of arrest. The theft is committed without the assistance of other persons.
HOW ARE THESE SUBJECTS?
These subjects admit that the desire to steal goes out of them and they are conscious of that it is a question of a wrong and meaningless act. Often they are afraid to be arrested and feel depressed or guilty. The disorder occurs rarely creates legal, familiar, professional and personal problems. It seems that two thirds of the kleptomaniac population in centers are women.
CAUSES
The compulsive buys, disorders of the frame of mind as the depression, the disorders of anxiety, of the food conduct like the nervous bulimia, the personality disorders can be associated with the kleptomania.
PREDOMINANCE
The kleptomania is a rare alteration that appears in less than 5 % of the thieves in shops identified. His predominance in the general population is not known.
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