Atypical Impulse Control Disorders Flashcards
essential features
failure to resist and impulse or drive or the temptation to perform an act that could be harmful to the person or others
Preoccupation
increasing sense of tension or arousal prior
Intoxication
pleasure, gratification, or relief duing
Wtihdrawal
regret, self-reproach, or guilt following
Intermittent Explosive Disorder
characterized by discrete episodes of failure to resist aggressive impulses resulting in serious assaults or destruction
Kleptomania-essential features
-recurrent failure to resist impulses to steal objects not need for personal use or monetary value
- hoard or return objects
- chances arrest-not likely to steal but will preplan to avoid arrest
- tension increases if resist urge; tension relief upon act completion
- no help from others
Kleptomania-associated features
- impulse to steal is ego dystonic, conflict with the ego and one’s self image
- fears capture; fell depressed or guilty
- may cause legal, family, career and personal difficulties
- a possible variant of OCD
Kleptomania-DSM Diagnostic
- sense of tension before committing act
- pleasure, gratification or relief at time of committing act
- stealing is not committed to express anger and is not in response to a delusion or a hallucination
-not better accounted for by conduct disorder, a manic disorder, or antisocial personality disorder
Kleptomania- course
- can go on for years
1. sporadic
2. episodic
3. chronic
4. may appear in childhood and continue into adulthood
Kleptomania- relationship to shoplifting
- shoplifters rate high on inner tension before and relief after stealing
- similar descriptions of impulsivity in both groups
Kleptomania- underregulation: strength
- temporary weakness-anxiety or stress
- externally-mediated weakness deficit- goods displayed to attract interest
Kleptomania- misregulation
symptoms relief from anxiety or depression
Pyromania- essential features
presence of multiple episodes of deliberate and purposeful fire setting
Pyromania- associated features
- advance preparation for starting fire
- indifferent to consequences
- lead to property damage, legal consequences, or injury/loss of life
Pyromania- DSM Diagnostic
A. deliberate and purposeful fire setting on more than one occasion
B. tension or affective arousal before the act
C. fascination with, interest in, curiosity about, or attraction to fire and its situational
D. pleasure, gratification, or relief when setting fires, or when witnessing or participating in their aftermath
E. done for monetary gain, as an expression of sociopolitical ideology, to conceal criminal activity, to express anger or vengeance, to improve one’s living circumstances, in response to a delusion or hallucination or as a result of impaired judgment
F. not better accounted for by conduct disorder, a manic disorder, or antisocial personality disorder