(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".
Obsession
Definition:
(n.) The act of besieging.
(n.) The state of being besieged; -- used specifically of a person beset by a spirit from without.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is possible that the marked elevations in obsessive-compulsive symptomatology and in interpersonal sensitivity may reflect in part a sensitization to excessive performance demands.
(2) Associated features include previous illness phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
(3) As a young teenager I was obsessed with sex: to be held in a man's arms would confirm that I was a woman.
(4) While the Spielberg of popular myth is Mr Nice Guy, Lean was known as an obsessive, cantankerous tyrant who didn't much like actors and was only truly happy locked away in the editing suite.
(5) Efficacy assessments included the child version of the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale and the National Institute of Mental Health Global rating scale.
(6) Rigorously designed clinical trials have demonstrated the efficacy and safety of fluoxetine in adults with major depressive disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) but not in patients below 18 years old.
(7) The authors report four patients with disabling obsessive thoughts who responded in dramatic fashion to antidepressant medication.
(8) In this article, obsessive compulsive disorder, its subtypes, and epidemiologic features are described.
(9) So do the IEA's obsessions just happen to coincide with those of the cigarette firms?
(10) Atropine-comatose therapy was performed in 18 patients with schizophrenia and disorders in the framework of an obsessive-syndrome.
(11) The bureau seemed obsessed instead with classified material that flowed through a private email server set up by Clinton’s aides.
(12) A principal axis factor analysis with a Promax rotation was performed on the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale.
(13) The main phenomenological differences between hypochondriasis and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder have been interpreted as expressive of the lower and higher levels of intrapsychic integration respectively.
(14) Despite the presence of some side effects, such as easily controlled seizures (9%) and transient mania (6%), the results of this investigation support the use of cingulotomy as a potentially effective treatment for patients with severe and disabling obsessive-compulsive disorder.
(15) You described it as being an obsession," the judge said.
(16) The media is utterly self-obsessed and we get more ink than perhaps we should do.
(17) Michael Philpott's obsession with Lisa Willis was nothing to do with you.
(18) The persona that emerged during day two of Breivik's 10-week trial was a rambling, repetitive obsessive, fixated on a threat he never truly managed to articulate, but which involved "cultural Marxists", whom he claimed had destroyed Norway by using it as "a dumping ground for the surplus births of the third world".
(19) One that sentimentality is obsessed by while funds are disproportionately siphoned away from the other 20,933 species facing extinction .
(20) Reality television molded Trump into the ratings and polls-obsessed performer that we know today, and created a new generation of Americans ready to be entertained by him.