Kleptomania and pyromania

Work done by: Giovanna Gombo

Introduction
Kleptomania
 1 What is kleptomania?
Index 2 Symptoms

3 Causes

4 Risk factors

5 Comorbidity
6 Treatment
What is
kleptomania?
Kleptomania is the inability to resist
the urge to steal items, usually for
reasons other than personal use or
financial gain
 Symptoms

1 2 3
Inability to resist Feeling increased Feeling pleasure,
powerful urges to tension, anxiety or relief or gratification
steal items that you arousal leading up to while stealing
don't need the theft
 Symptoms

4 5
Feeling terrible guilt, Return of the urges
remorse, self- and a repetition of
loathing, shame or the kleptomania
fear of arrest after
the theft
Causes

• Differences in brain structure

Causes

• Differences in brain chemistry

Causes

• As a symptom of other mental

health conditions
Causes

• Genetics
 Risk factors
01 02 03 04

Relations with
Mental Low levels of addictive Imbalance in
illnesses serotonin disorders the brain
 Risk factors
04 05 06

Family history Being female Trauma

Comorbidity
• Mood swings
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Eating disorders
• Alcohol
• Substance use
Treatment
Treatment

• Cognitive behavioral therapy

• Systematic desensitization
• Convert sensitization
Treatment

• Medication
• Selective serotonin reuptake
inhibitor
• Addiction medication
Pyromania
 1 What is pyromania?
Index 2 Symptoms

3 Causes

4 Diagnosis

5 Treatment
6 Pyromania in children, teenagers
and adults
What is
pyromania?
Pyromania is the inability to resist the
urge to deliberately start fires,
normally to relieve some tension or
for instant pleasure.
 Symptoms

1 2 3
Fascination with fire Uncontrollable urge Excitement or
to set fires tension around fire-
starting
 Symptoms

4 5
Feeling of relief or Rush caused by
pleasure when seeing starting a fire or
a fire looking at one
Causes
• Brain's chemicals
Causes
• Trigger
Causes
• Mental disorders
Causes
• Genes
Causes
• Being male
Causes
• Stressors
Causes
• Child abuse or family history of
mental illnesses
Diagnosis

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Mood disorders
Treatment

• Cognitive-behavioral therapy
• Atypical antipsychotics
• Behavior therapies such as
aversion therapy
• Antidepressants
• Antiepileptic medication
• Anti-anxiety medication
• Anti-androgens
Pyromania in
children and
teenagers
Pyromania in
children and
teenagers
• Firesetting as a cry for help
Pyromania in
children and
teenagers
• Firesetting as a cry for help
• Delinquent firesetters
Pyromania in
children and
teenagers
• Firesetting as a cry for help
• Delinquent firesetters
• Severely disturbed firesetters
Pyromania in
children and
teenagers
• Firesetting as a cry for help
• Delinquent firesetters
• Severely disturbed firesetters
• Cognitively impaired firesetters
Pyromania in
children and
teenagers
• Firesetting as a cry for help
• Delinquent firesetters
• Severely disturbed firesetters
• Cognitively impaired firesetters
• Sociocultural firesetters
Pyromania in
adults
• Substance abuse disorders
• OCD
• Anxiety disorders
• Mood disorders
Conclusion