Pyromania
Pyromania is an impulse control disorder in which individuals repeatedly fail to resist impulses to deliberately start fires, in order to relieve some tension or for instant gratification. The term pyromania comes from the Greek word πῦρ (pyr, fire).
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: PW180
Diagnosis: Pyromania
US Patients:
World Patients:
Sex Ratio: M10;F
Age Onset:
Brain Area: impulse control;
Symptoms: setting fires to relieve own tension, not for vengance or profit, to induce euphoria and enjoy fire houses and fire-fighters
Progression:
Causes: fatherless homes light fires; parental neglect, fire lit as a stress reliever
Medications: Used for adults, resistant to therapy
Therapies: CBT, parental training and correcting assumptions; adults are usually less cooperative with CBT than children or teenagers
Youtube Video: Pyromania
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Amazon or Library Book: Children and Teenagers Who Set Fires
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- Unraveling the Inferno: An Arson Case Seriesby Yarden Segal on May 13, 2024
Firesetting behaviors present multifaceted challenges that intersect the realms of mental health, law, and societal welfare. While distinct in nature, firesetting, arson, and pyromania collectively embody a spectrum of behaviors that cause harm with profound implications for mental health and legal system. Firesetting is a behavior, arson is a criminal offense, and pyromania is a classified psychiatric diagnosis. Nevertheless, the underlying motivations for these behaviors in the context of...
- 'Interesting' or 'boring': Modifying the implicit association task to measure implicit fire interest in an adolescent community sampleby Stjepan Sambol on April 26, 2024
The efficacy of explicit measures in assessing fire interest is often compromised by social desirability biases, presenting a challenge for early intervention programs aimed at preventing firesetting behaviour. The current study aimed to validate a novel fire interest Implicit Association Task (IAT), as a more reliable measure of implicit fire interest in adolescents. An Australian community adolescent sample of 85 participants, aged 10-17 (M = 13.65, SD = 1.81), completed a series of...
- Mental health professionals' use of the ICD-11 classification of impulse control disorders and behavioral addictions: An international field studyby Johannes Fuss on January 13, 2024
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The ICD-11 chapter on mental, behavioral and neurodevelopmental disorders contains new controversial diagnoses including compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD), intermittent explosive disorder (IED) and gaming disorder. Using a vignette-based methodology, this field study examined the ability of mental health professionals (MHPs) to apply the new ICD-11 diagnostic requirements for impulse control disorders, which include CSBD and IED, and disorders due to addictive...
- Impulse Control Disordersby Kamron A. Fariba on January 1, 2024
Impulsivity is a trait ubiquitous with human nature. What separates humans from life forms of lower sentience is the evolution of neurocircuitry within the prefrontal cortex that allows one to practice self-governance. Self-governance, or self-control, has many monikers. Moffitt, for example, uses the sobriquet conscientiousness to express this notion of self-restraint. Moreover, whatever moniker is assigned, all encompass the foundational notion of effortful self-regulation. Those who can, for...