Of the total population of kleptomania ...

Of the total population suffer from kleptomania about 0 , 05% of the people, that is, the phenomenon is extremely rare. Others - (I recall) 20% of unmotivated theft (associated with ulterior motives, the inner psychological conflicts, depression, some of them - young people, to those hidden motives can be added to those cases when teenagers commit theft to assert themselves, take a ritual "of initiation into adulthood, as well as a sense of youthful resistance or desires in front of his cab company). And just 5% of cases of theft committed people who are in a state of despair and 70% of all burglaries committed ordinary thieves to embezzlement. Western states statistics (based on Canadian studies) that most of kleptomania are female, average age 36 years, the usual "experience" of the disease - about 16 years. kleptomania, clinical cases Bearing clear criteria for the clinical manifestations of kleptomania, and yet the court psychiatrists as experts in their practical work encountered some difficulty in diagnosing this condition. Vori-malingerers beneficial "to chase the geese" on kleptomania to shirk responsibility, but these attempts to simulate them do not pass . The case of my forensic psychiatric practice: In the late eighties in Tallinn Design Institute of employees began to disappear money. How long could the thief. Thefts continue. It was only a trap with a special dye has helped find money thief. She was a quiet, pretty girl their design office. She tried to explain that she could not resist, that she suffers from kleptomania. From the standpoint of forensic psychiatric commission, in which I too was involved - this case is regarded as kleptomania would be highly questionable. For us it was enough one criterion: how to install a consequence, this sweet-faced thief is interested in money. She had a selfish motive. kleptomania A behavioral motif that through the act of stealing helps them to change their mental state to get rid of a strong internal stress and obtain short-term thrills on the similarity of drug euphoria. For thirty years, and a psychiatrist for fifteen years in the forensic psychiatric examination of this kleptomaniac, I saw only once. So kleptomania - is a very rare disorder of desire in the form of a behavioral addiction, which is diagnosed as rare. Let me give another example, a rare case of this kleptomania: a lawyer by training, a young man, he stole their cloaks in Tallinn department store "Kaubamayya - such behavior and the type of man in general are not typical. He put in a fitting room cape on top - his and walked to the exit. Very often, come, become familiar sellers, they are after his departure found ourselves short coats. Twelve pieces in total steals, all cloaks kept at home. swore that he could not control myself. In our forensic psychiatric commission expert opinion was unanimous.