(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".
Psychological
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to psychology. See Note under Psychic.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study, the role of psychological make-up was assessed as a risk factor in the etiology of vasospasm in variant angina (VA) using the Cornell Medical Index (CMI).
(2) 278 children with bronchial asthma were medically, socially and psychologically compared to 27 rheumatic and 19 diabetic children.
(3) The very young history of clinical Psychology is demonstrating the value of clinical Psychologist in the socialistic healthy work and the international important positions of special education to psychological specialist of medicine.
(4) A review is made from literature and an inventory of psychological and organic factors implicated in this pathology.
(5) Psychological well-being and the level of psychological autonomy were studied in a group of 109 Jewish late adolescents in the USSR.
(6) Contrary to expectations, it was found that psychological variables had some prognostic significance for outcome assessed by medical measures of illness severity.
(7) He captivated me, but not just because of his intellect; it was for his wisdom, his psychological insights and his sense of humour that I will always remember our dinners together.
(8) Possible explanations of the clinical gains include 1) psychological encouragement, 2) improvements of mechanical efficiency, 3) restoration of cardiovascular fitness, thus breaking a vicous circle of dyspnoea, inactivity and worsening dyspnoea, 4) strengthening of the body musculature, thus reducing the proportion of anaerobic work, 5) biochemical adaptations reducing glycolysis in the active tissues, and 6) indirect responses to such factors as group support, with advice on smoking habits, breathing patterns and bronchial hygiene.
(9) There is no doubt that psychological, reactive and environmental factors do play a certain role too.
(10) A developing sophistication on the part of both children and parents, coupled with a rapidly expanding recognition of the need to minimize the amount of physical and psychological trauma that a child has to experience, has led to a growing use of premedication agents for children.
(11) However, the test by itself should not be construed as an unequivocal measure of hysteria as defined psychologically by the MMPI.
(12) From a psychological-vertical aspect the group is rather a common situation in which the individual members remain in their experience separated from each other.
(13) It may be better for patients if they are given opportunities to psychologically prepare themselves well in advance of the operation.
(14) For many it had still a moderating effect on distress at the present but appeared to be mainly used out of "psychological dependence".
(15) Implications are discussed for the psychological assessment of bilinguals as well as for psychotherapy.
(16) Lastly, sexually tortured women manifest greater psychological and sexual dysfunction.
(17) Psychological features of isolator treatment in ten patients with acute leukemia are described and suggestions proposed for psychological management of patients under isolator conditions.
(18) More recently, it has been reported that individuals strongly reactive to psychological stress are also strongly reactive to nicotine.
(19) According to the author's observations in a federal penitentiary, bank robbery more often is a symptomatic act with psychological meaning.
(20) "I am in a bad situation, psychologically so bad and confused," one father said, surrounded by his three other young sons.