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pyromania
Sign in to saveAlso known as firesetting behavior, incendiarism, pyromaniac, pathological firesetting
Pyromania is an impulse-control disorder in which individuals repeatedly fail to resist impulses to deliberately start fires. An individual with pyromania deliberately sets fires on more than one occasion, and before the act of lighting the fire, the person usually experiences tension and an emotional buildup.
Key facts
- Medical condition.name
- Pyromania
- Medical condition.image
- File:Burned container.jpg
- Medical condition.caption
- Garbage container damaged by fire
- Medical condition.field
- Psychiatry, clinical psychology
- Medical condition.symptoms
- Impulsive starting of fires
- Medical condition.causes
- Parental neglect, early physical or emotional abuse, early observation of inappropriate fire usage
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
545 papers- [Pathological fire-setting (pyromania)].Ryoikibetsu shokogun shirizu · 2003
- Impulsivity.Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2000
- [Arson and pyromania, update 2015].Revue medicale suisse · 2015
- A look at firesetting, arson, and pyromania.International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology · 2015
- Firesetting, arson, pyromania, and the forensic mental health expert.The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law · 2012
via PubMed
~11 min read
Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Diagnosis
- ICD
- DSM
- Epidemiology
- Arson and pyromania
- Causes
- Environmental
- Individual
- Treatment and prognosis
- Drug treatments
- History
- See also
- References
- External links
Pyromania is an impulse-control disorder in which individuals repeatedly fail to resist impulses to deliberately start fires. An individual with pyromania deliberately sets fires on more than one occasion, and before the act of lighting the fire, the person usually experiences tension and an emotional buildup.
When around fires, a person with pyromania gains intense interest or fascination, and may also experience pleasure or relief. A common cause of pyromania is the buildup of stress in one's life.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pyromania” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.