kleptomania

How To Use kleptomania In A Sentence

• Head turned in competingly fabulous directions, I find myself feeling positively kleptomaniac. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
• When Ann gets home, she's ashamed, haunted by her moment of kleptomania.
• Neurasthenia, stammering, aversions, kleptomania, certain cases of paralysis, are nothing but the result of unconscious autosuggestion, that is to say the result of the action of the _unconscious_ upon the physical and moral being. Maîtrise de soi-même par l'autosuggestion consciente. English
• Diseases of the mind may manifest themselves in other ways which do not involve violence, for example, pyromania or kleptomania.
• How can the story of a mentally defective kleptomaniac, a bookish nympho, a crippled FBI agent and a suicidal millionaire's son add up to anything but trouble?
• He displayed aggressive behaviour, emotional immaturity, impulsiveness, rejection of authority and manipulative behaviour, lied, swore and had a leaning towards kleptomania.
• They attribute his stealing of petty items to an untreated and undiagnosed case of kleptomania, a psychiatric condition that causes a person to steal compulsively.
• Although ordinary acts of theft or shoplifting can be deliberate, motivated by a need, a desire, peer pressure, or rebellion, in extremely rare cases, a person who steals may have kleptomania.
• Eventually someone mentioned the word ` kleptomania ", and she got some psychiatric treatment. STAGE FRIGHT
• People with kleptomania often have another psychiatric disorder, often a mood disorder such as depression and anxiety.