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Pyromania
( empresiomania,
incendiarism,
incendiary mania,
pathological fire-setting
)
is a kind of:
- Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders
- mental disorder » Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders
- mental disorder » Impulse-Control Disorders
- mental disorder » insanity (Cullen typology) » mania
- insanity » intellectual insanity » mania
- mental disorder » mania
- Pinel classification of insanity » mania
- psychopathology » mania
- mental disorder
- mental disorder » dependence on reparative patterns » sexual equivalents
- mental disorder » overreactive disorder (Class I) » dependence on reparative patterns » sexual equivalents
- mental disorder » sexual disorder (adaptational psychodynamics) » dependence on reparative patterns » sexual equivalents
- overreactive disorder (Class I) » sexual disorder (adaptational psychodynamics) » dependence on reparative patterns » sexual equivalents
- mental disorder » sexual equivalents
- mental disorder » overreactive disorder (Class I) » sexual equivalents
- mental disorder » sexual disorder (adaptational psychodynamics) » sexual equivalents
- mental disorder » overreactive disorder (Class I) » sexual disorder (adaptational psychodynamics) » sexual equivalents
Individuals with this impulse-control disorder recurrently fail to resist impulses to deliberately start fires. They experience fascination with fire, its consequences and related activities. Setting the fires may provide relief or gratification related to tension experienced prior to the act.
Diagnostic criteria for 312.33 Pyromania (Obsolete)
includes: