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How to use kleptomania in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word kleptomania? Here are some examples.

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He doesn't need to steal, so the only motivation can be pleasure or something like kleptomania.
People with kleptomania often have another psychiatric disorder, often a mood disorder such as depression and anxiety.
The profile of the basic kind of person who suffers from kleptomania is that of somebody who has had a chaotic upbringing.
More than 1.2 million people in the United States are thought to suffer from kleptomania.
Were it not for her kleptomania and tendency to faint, one would assume she was a very happy woman.
Brain scans won't reveal that you're an obsessive compulsive or suffer from kleptomania.
Diseases of the mind may manifest themselves in other ways which do not involve violence, for example, pyromania or kleptomania.
Bradshaw, defending, said two independent reports both said she suffered from kleptomania.
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.
Although widely known and sometimes used as an attempted legal defense by arrested thieves, genuine kleptomania is a fairly rare mental disorder.
Though kleptomania diminished as a credible diagnosis within a few decades of its invention, other psychological justifications took its place.
When Ann gets home, she's ashamed, haunted by her moment of kleptomania.
He displayed aggressive behaviour, emotional immaturity, impulsiveness, rejection of authority and manipulative behaviour, lied, swore and had a leaning towards kleptomania.
Later, when his wife, Jarman's mother, was dying of cancer, the air commodore succumbed to kleptomania.
Examples from Classical Literature
Another periodical insanity is kleptomania, in which insane stealing occurs at intervals of greater or lesser regularity.
A euphemism of kleptomania had been offered and accepted as sufficient excuse for her crime.
Its exercise would probably be classed with kleptomania and other like excesses of purely personal consideration.
Meanwhile Kerry's plan to cure Brenda of her kleptomania by leading her into temptation ends up with the pair of them being led into custody.
One man is afflicted with colour-blindness, another with kleptomania.
Meanwhile Kerry's plan to cure Brenda, pictured, of her kleptomania by leading her into temptation ends up with the pair of them being led into custody.
I have kleptomania, but when it gets bad, I take something for it.
The squeeze on living standards has been blamed by some for the spike, but there are numerous other reasons for shoplifting including peer pressure, kleptomania or depression.
Colin, my drinking companion, suffers from hypochondria and kleptomania.
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