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What (who) is kleptomaniac - definition

INABILITY TO RESIST THE URGE TO STEAL
Kleptomaniac; Cleptomania; Kleptomanic; Pathological stealing; Comorbidities of kleptomania; Kelptomaniac; Stealing addiction; Compulsive stealing
  • Portrait of a kleptomaniac, Théodore Géricault, 1820, [[Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent]]

kleptomaniac         
(kleptomaniacs)
A kleptomaniac is a person who cannot control their desire to steal things, usually because of a medical condition.
N-COUNT
Kleptomaniac         
·noun A person affected with kleptomania.
Kleptomania         
·noun A propensity to steal, claimed to be irresistible. This does not constitute legal irresponsibility.

Wikipedia

Kleptomania

Kleptomania is the inability to resist the urge to steal items, usually for reasons other than personal use or financial gain. First described in 1816, kleptomania is classified in psychiatry as an impulse control disorder. Some of the main characteristics of the disorder suggest that kleptomania could be an obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorder, but also share similarities with addictive and mood disorders.

The disorder is frequently under-diagnosed and is regularly associated with other psychiatric disorders, particularly anxiety, eating disorders, alcohol and substance use. Patients with kleptomania are typically treated with therapies in other areas due to the comorbid grievances rather than issues directly related to kleptomania.

Over the last 100 years, a shift from psychotherapeutic to psychopharmacological interventions for kleptomania has occurred. Pharmacological treatments using selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), mood stabilizers and opioid receptor antagonists, and other antidepressants along with cognitive behavioral therapy, have yielded positive results. However, there have also been reports of kleptomania induced by selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs).

Examples of use of kleptomaniac
1. Past letters have involved a woman kleptomaniac asking to be cured.
2. It is bitterly divided between the haves and the have–nots and lorded over by kleptomaniac government officials.
3. It is also the result of decisions taken by kleptomaniac politicians in Africa who abhor the accountability that market economies brings.
4. On the other, Cameron‘s aides are all over Michela Wrong of the New Statesman, who has been the spokeswoman for the African dissidents who think Geldof is rewarding the genocidal and kleptomaniac tyrants who are keeping Africa poor.
5. LEE MCCLENNY PRESS COUNSELOR US EMBASSY, LONDON No pity for oligarchs Sir÷ I find your strained defence of the kleptomaniac Khodorkovsky disgusting (leading article, 1 June). It‘s analogous to criticising US authorities for charging and convicting Al Capone on tax evasion because they couldn‘t get him for racketeering.