He doesn't need to steal, so the only motivation can be pleasure or something like kleptomania. |
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People with kleptomania often have another psychiatric disorder, often a mood disorder such as depression and anxiety. |
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The profile of the basic kind of person who suffers from kleptomania is that of somebody who has had a chaotic upbringing. |
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More than 1.2 million people in the United States are thought to suffer from kleptomania. |
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Were it not for her kleptomania and tendency to faint, one would assume she was a very happy woman. |
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Brain scans won't reveal that you're an obsessive compulsive or suffer from kleptomania. |
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Diseases of the mind may manifest themselves in other ways which do not involve violence, for example, pyromania or kleptomania. |
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Bradshaw, defending, said two independent reports both said she suffered from kleptomania. |
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They attribute his stealing of petty items to an untreated and undiagnosed case of kleptomania, a psychiatric condition that causes a person to steal compulsively. |
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Although widely known and sometimes used as an attempted legal defense by arrested thieves, genuine kleptomania is a fairly rare mental disorder. |
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Though kleptomania diminished as a credible diagnosis within a few decades of its invention, other psychological justifications took its place. |
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When Ann gets home, she's ashamed, haunted by her moment of kleptomania. |
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He displayed aggressive behaviour, emotional immaturity, impulsiveness, rejection of authority and manipulative behaviour, lied, swore and had a leaning towards kleptomania. |
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Later, when his wife, Jarman's mother, was dying of cancer, the air commodore succumbed to kleptomania. |
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