Diagnostic criteria for 312.32 Kleptomania
(cautionary statement)
A. Recurrent failure to resist impulses to steal objects that are not needed for personal use or for their monetary value.
B. Increasing sense of tension immediately before committing the theft.
C. Pleasure, gratification, or relief at the time of committing the theft.
D. The stealing is not committed to express anger or vengeance and is not in response to a
delusion or a hallucination.
E. The stealing is not better accounted for by Conduct
Disorder, a Manic Episode, or Antisocial Personality
Disorder.
Reprinted with permission from the Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth Edition. Copyright 1994 American
Psychiatric Association
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