(n.) A propensity to steal, claimed to be irresistible. This does not constitute legal irresponsibility.
Example Sentences:
(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".
Kleptomaniac
Definition:
(n.) A person affected with kleptomania.
Example Sentences:
(1) Still, it’s hard to point fingers at a kleptomaniac when you have sticky fingers too.
(2) To be impolite, it is theft," he said , branding search engines such as Google and Yahoo as "content kleptomaniacs" .
(3) In the link economy, value is made not only by those who create content but also by those who create a public for it: the aggregators and curators, such as Google itself, whom Rupert Murdoch and his team label as "parasites," "content kleptomaniacs", and "tech tapeworms in the intestines of the internet".
(4) I don’t understand why, for example, fetishists, kleptomaniacs or transsexuals should be banned from driving a car… I think this is a violation of the rights of Russian citizens.” The move was also criticised by international rights activists, who said it could create a climate of fear.
(5) The old kleptomaniac, who stashed away about $5bn while his country went to ruin, was driven from power by the first Rwandan invasion.
(6) Subsequently, we suggest distinguishing between two groups of kleptomaniac patients who can be differentiated with regard to their symptoms and psychodynamics.
(7) Huffington said she was disappointed by the insults used by the old media: "Sites that aggregate the news have become, in the words of Rupert Murdoch and his team, 'parasites', 'content kleptomaniacs', 'vampires', 'tech tapeworms in the intestines of the internets, and, of course, thieves who 'steal all our copyright'.
(8) We give a list of the descriptive-empirical papers which prove that one cannot speak of an independent clinical picture, but rather that the kleptomaniac actions may be a symptom of multiple causes.
(9) The vicious kleptomaniac was eventually overthrown after losing his cold war sponsors in the west.
(10) Some kleptomaniacs seem to be "fixed" on special objects when stealing.
(11) But the one thing we know about the murderous kleptomaniac regime in Russia is that it walks all over the weak.
(12) Suddenly she looked like a middle-class kleptomaniac caught leaving Harrods."
(13) Their presence, and the support of Zaire's former kleptomaniac leader, Mobutu Sese Seko, for his old Hutu allies, sowed the seeds of much of the subsequent upheaval in Congo.