Translation for 'kleptomania' from English to Icelandic

kleptomania

stelsýki {kv}sálfræði

• The role of impulsivity in the ICDs varies. Research on kleptomania and pyromania is lacking, though there is some evidence that greater kleptomania severity is tied to poor executive functioning.
• She was sentenced to another two months' imprisonment, despite requesting that she be admitted to a lunatic asylum and claiming that she had inherited madness and kleptomania from her mother.
• the presence of kleptomania is unknown but has been estimated at 6 per 1000 individuals.
• Trent Lott, the Republican majority leader, worked to block the vote and publicly called homosexuality a sin and compared it to alcoholism and kleptomania.
• The terms kleptomania and kleptocracy are derived from the same Greek root, κλέπτειν ("kléptein"), "to steal".

• Pyromania, another impulse disorder, has many ties to kleptomania. Many pyromaniacs begin fires alongside petty stealing which often appears similar to kleptomania.
• The penultimate story focuses on Rebecca Brown, the daughter of a minister, who starts to develop kleptomania after her father's death and fantasizes about burning things.
• She began to steal smaller things while still a child; she attributed her kleptomania to meningitis she survived at the age of six.