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Child pyromania is the rarest form of fire-setting. [citation needed] Most young children are not diagnosed with pyromania, but rather with conduct disorders. [1] A key feature of pyromania is repeated association with fire without a real motive. Pyromania is not a commonly diagnosed disorder, and only occurs in about one percent of the ...
Pyromania is characterized by impulsive and repetitive urges to deliberately start fires. Because of its nature, the number of studies performed for fire-setting are understandably limited. However, studies done on children and adolescents with pyromania have reported its prevalence to be between 2.4 and 3.5% in the United States. It has also ...
Pyromania was thought in the 1800s to be a concept involved with moral insanity and moral treatment, but had not been categorized under impulse control disorders. Pyromania is one of the four recognized types of arson alongside burning for profit, to cover up an act of crime, and for revenge. Pyromania is the second most common type of arson. [15]
This is a list of mental disorders as defined in the DSM-IV, the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.Published by the American Psychiatry Association (APA), it was released in May 1994, [1] superseding the DSM-III-R (1987).
The Macdonald triad (also known as the triad of sociopathy or the homicidal triad) is a set of three factors, the presence of any two of which are considered to be predictive of, or associated with, violent tendencies, particularly with relation to serial offenses.
Pyromania is a mental disorder characterized by a compulsion to set fires. Pyromania or Pyromaniac may also refer to: Pyromania, a 1983 album by Def Leppard "Pyromania" (song), a 2010 song by Cascada; Pyromaniac, a 2016 Norwegian film; The Pyromaniac, a thought experiment in epistemology
Some described cases of pyrophilia do not include behaviors commonly associated with pyromania, such as being a regular “watcher” at fires in their neighbourhood; setting off false alarms; deriving pleasure from institutions, equipment, and personnel associated with fire, spending time at the local fire station, setting fires in order to be ...
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