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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of American Psychiatric Association fourth edition DSM –IV TR (APA 59) defines personality disorder as “a rigid and lasting pattern of inner behavior and experience that deviates noticeably from the expectations of the affected person's culture.... Patients suffering from the schizoid personality disorder demonstrate a high pattern of detachment from social relationships and a constrained medium of expressing their emotions (Martens, 40)....
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Buying behavior: A need or a disorder?... Over the years, there has been a wide debate as to what exactly obsessive compulsive disorder is and whether kleptomania is a part of it or a distinct disorder.... It is also an aspect that has been given little importance over the years even though it is a pressing reality that needs to be paid heed to in relation to obsessive compulsive disorder.... Majority of kleptomaniacs steal from stores and like most people with an obsessive compulsive disorder, they fail at stopping their misdemeanor and experience gratification on committing the act....
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According to the Diagnostic Statistical Manual- IV-TR (Grant and Odlaug, 2008), diagnosis of kleptomania is established when a person exhibits “1) recurrent failure to resist impulses to steal objects that are not needed for personal use or for their monetary value, 2) increasing sense of tension immediately before committing the theft, 3) pleasure, gratification, or relief at the time of committing the theft, 4) the stealing is not committed to express anger or vengeance and is not in response to a delusion or a hallucination and 5) the stealing is not better accounted for by conduct disorder, a manic episode, or antisocial personality disorder" (Grant and Odlaug, 2008)....
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Their psychological disorder is a result of both, the social attitude and their own negative perception of the self image.... This has led to many homosexual people suffer from psychological disorders.... The cultural values that he is brought up with plays a vital role in development of his personality....
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The aim of this work is to analyze the modern psychological disorder “sociopathy” on the basis of five different published editions (article, magazine, newspaper), revealing the main essence of the articles, the differences in their description and vision of the problem, making the appropriate conclusions on behalf of the held researches.... The chapter deals with the key aspects of the disorder and its contexts, extending the knowledge of a reader and providing achievements of other researchers who deal with this problem....
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This essay "Buying Behavior: A Need or a disorder" discusses codes in states such as the State of California that indicate that lunatics, idiots, and insane people are not capable of registering their actions and therefore are not responsible for their actions.... Compulsive shopping disorder is also another factor but in this case, patients buy a lot of things and are high in debt rather than stealing them.... It is also an aspect that has been given little importance over the years even though it is a pressing reality that needs to be paid heed to in relation to obsessive-compulsive disorder....
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People who behave badly or who act violently are not born with hostility but either acquire it with time or have a disorder that they cannot escape its urge.... Humans have the ability to control impulses compared to other species and that mark the humans' psychological maturity.... s impulsiveness is an important aspect of life that is behind human behavior, many theories in psychological personality address various qualities, from a range of different backgrounds and perceptions (Carver & Scheier, 2008)....
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The shopping disorder is clinically identified as a spending tendency or “shopaholism”.... Consumption has been both a physical as well as a psychological need that is predominant within the consumption trend of the society.... The paper "Cultural Construction of Women as Subjects" highlights that different influences like the commercialization and influences of media have been affecting the lifestyle of the people as well....
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