What's the difference between cleptomania and kleptomania?

Cleptomania


Definition:

  • (n.) See Kleptomania.

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Kleptomania


Definition:

  • (n.) A propensity to steal, claimed to be irresistible. This does not constitute legal irresponsibility.

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  • (1) In order to facilitate further research into this concept, we drafted seven interview modules, using the format of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R (SCID), designed to diagnose the following psychiatric and medical disorders: irritable bowel syndrome, narcolepsy, Tourette's disorder, migraine, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and kleptomania.
  • (2) Recent advances in the clinical understanding of human sexual functioning have not been accompanied by an effort to refine our thinking about its relationship to kleptomania.
  • (3) This paper describes the six patients I have seen with the primary diagnosis of kleptomania; all had dysfunctional sexual relationships.
  • (4) Further studies are needed to establish the possible relationship between kleptomania, mood disorders and lithium therapy.
  • (5) Psychodynamically, risk-taking behavior may be important in kleptomania.
  • (6) Kleptomania, a disorder of impulse control in which the patients feel a compelling urge to steal objects of no value to them, has long been considered a disorder related in some fashion to sexual impulses.
  • (7) The review focused on the demographic and clinical characteristics, phenomenology, family history, biology, and response to treatment of individuals with intermittent explosive disorder, kleptomania, pathological gambling, pyromania, and trichotillomania.
  • (8) Kleptomania, as defined by modern criteria, may represent the most compulsive variant.
  • (9) With a detailed case report of a patient suffering from kleptomania with neurotic causes, we are trying to obtain more detailed information about such patients' psychodynamics.
  • (10) This model emphasizes possible childhood abuse as a precipitating factor in later development of kleptomania.
  • (11) The authors' objective was to provide phenomenologic, family history, and treatment response data on a group of rigorously diagnosed patients with kleptomania.
  • (12) The subjects with mixed disorder manifested a higher lifetime prevalence of kleptomania than either the anorexics or the bulimics.
  • (13) Kleptomania may be related to major mood disorder and perhaps may represent another form of "affective spectrum disorder."
  • (14) We confirm the opinion expressed by other authors that kleptomania with neurotic causes is to be classified amongst the impulse neuroses.
  • (15) Ancillary symptoms of kleptomania, laxative abuse, and vegetarianism are discussed, and associations with masturbatory conflicts and early adolescent phallic activity, i.e., horseback riding, are elaborated.
  • (16) The case history is preceded by a discussion of the concept of kleptomania.
  • (17) Kleptomania is more common than previously thought.
  • (18) The diagnostic criteria for kleptomania are summarized, and four cases of elderly patients whose shoplifting was a factor in their psychiatric diagnoses are presented.
  • (19) A 13-year-old boy developed severe kleptomania after a depressive illness.
  • (20) I'm firmly persuaded that all politicians simply want to manipulate people; that, mixed with a marked tendency to kleptomania".

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