Impulse Control Disorders

Cambridge University Press, 2/8/2010
EAN 9780521898706, ISBN10: 0521898706

Hardcover, 324 pages, 25.4 x 18 x 2.3 cm
Language: English

In the last decade, much needed attention and research has been focused on the group of psychiatric conditions termed 'impulse control disorders' or ICDs. Pathological gambling, compulsive shopping, kleptomania, hypersexuality, Internet 'addiction', among other disorders, are characterized by a recurrent urge to perform a repetitive behavior that is gratifying in the moment but causes significant long-term distress and disability. Despite the high rate of co-morbidity with obsessive compulsive disorder, ICDs are now clearly distinguished from these disorders with a unique clinical approach for diagnosis and treatment. A wide array of psychopharmacologic and psychotherapeutic options is now available for treating these disorders. Drs Elias Aboujaoude and Lorrin M. Koran have collated the world's foremost experts in ICD research and treatment to create a comprehensive book on the frequency, evolution, treatment, and related public policy, public health, forensic, and medical issues of these disorders. This is the first book to bring together medical and social knowledge bases related to impulse control disorders.

Part I. Acquisitive Impulses
1. Compulsive buying
clinical aspects Donald W. Black
2. Compulsive buying
cultural contributors and consequences April Lane Benson, Helga Dittmar, and Reeta Wolfsohn
3. Kleptomania
clinical aspects Lorrin M. Koran, Dana Bodnik, and Pinhas N. Dannon
4. Kleptomania and the law Brad Novak
5. Pathological gambling
clinical aspects Jon E. Grant and Brian L. Odlaug
6. Pathological gambling
promoting risk, possessing ruin Laura M. Letson
7. Cash and casinos
an Indian perspective Eileen M. Luna
Part II. Pellicular Impulses
8. Trichotillomania
clinical aspects Michael R. Walther, Benjamin T. P. Tucker, and Douglas W. Woods
9. Trichotillomania
the view from dermatology Drew Miller and Amy McMichael
10. How to create a national advocacy organization Christina S. Pearson
11. Skin picking
clinical aspects Celal Calikusu and Ozlem Tecer
12. Skin picking
the view from dermatology Rungsima Wanitphakdeedecha and Tina S. Alster
13. Nail biting
clinical aspects Timothy Ivor Williams
14. Nail biting and other oral habits
a dental perspective Sven E. Widmalm and Duane C. McKay
Part III. Information-Seeking Impulses
15. Problematic Internet use
clinical aspects Timothy Liu and Marc N. Potenza
16. Virtual violence
the games people play Vladan Starcevic and Guy Porter
17. Counseling in cyberspace
your e-therapist is on call John H. Greist
Part IV. Sexual and Aggressive Impulses
18. Hypersexuality
clinical aspects Peer Briken, Andreas Hill, and Wolfgang Berner
19. The sex industry
public vice, hidden victims William M. Spice
20. Intermittent explosive disorder
clinical aspects Emil F. Coccaro and Michael S. McCloskey
21. Violence against women
preventing a social scourge Joan C. Chrisler and Sheila Ferguson
22. Intimate partner violence
aggression at close quarters Christy M. McKinney and Raul Caetano
23. Pyromania
clinical aspects Candice Germain and Michel Lejoyeux
24. Arson
choking off the flames Paul Schwartzman.