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    Pyromania is an impulse control disorder where individuals deliberately set fires to experience tension relief and pleasure. It is diagnosed when fires are set deliberately more than once with tension or arousal preceding it and pleasure or relief following. The fire must be set for pleasure rather than other motives like financial gain. Treatments include cognitive behavioral therapy, psychosocial programs, and medications like antipsychotics, though more research is needed due to limited studies. Causes may include biological and environmental factors like lacking a strong father figure, though the exact causes are still unknown.

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    Pyromania is an impulse control disorder where individuals deliberately set fires to experience tension relief and pleasure. It is diagnosed when fires are set deliberately more than once with tension or arousal preceding it and pleasure or relief following. The fire must be set for pleasure rather than other motives like financial gain. Treatments include cognitive behavioral therapy, psychosocial programs, and medications like antipsychotics, though more research is needed due to limited studies. Causes may include biological and environmental factors like lacking a strong father figure, though the exact causes are still unknown.

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    Pyromania is an impulse control disorder where individuals deliberately set fires to experience tension relief and pleasure. It is diagnosed when fires are set deliberately more than once with tension or arousal preceding it and pleasure or relief following. The fire must be set for pleasure rather than other motives like financial gain. Treatments include cognitive behavioral therapy, psychosocial programs, and medications like antipsychotics, though more research is needed due to limited studies. Causes may include biological and environmental factors like lacking a strong father figure, though the exact causes are still unknown.

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    Pyromania is an impulse control disorder where individuals deliberately set fires to experience tension relief and pleasure. It is diagnosed when fires are set deliberately more than once with tension or arousal preceding it and pleasure or relief following. The fire must be set for pleasure rather than other motives like financial gain. Treatments include cognitive behavioral therapy, psychosocial programs, and medications like antipsychotics, though more research is needed due to limited studies. Causes may include biological and environmental factors like lacking a strong father figure, though the exact causes are still unknown.

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    Pyromania is an impulse control behavior where the affected person sets fires in

    order to relieve tension while simultaneously receiving a sense of pleasure or


    satisfaction. I chose to research and write about pyromania because I have always
    been fascinated with fire, for example over the summer I make bonfires with friends
    very often. I usually feel myself losing sense of time as I stare into it, mesmerized
    by the flickering flames.
    Rebekah Doley describes several clinical criteria one must satisfy before they are
    diagnosed with pyromania. First, they must have deliberately set a fire on more
    than one occasion. This makes sure that the fire-setting is purposeful and not an
    isolated act, as either condition not being fulfilled would not qualify for pyromania.
    Second there must be tension or arousal before the fire is set. These feelings are
    responsible for stimulating the behavior. Third a sense of pleasure or relief is felt
    when setting the fire, or when participating or witnessing the events following the
    setting of the fire. These positive feelings help to reinforce the pyromaniac behavior.
    Fourth, the fire must be set for the purpose of the pleasure it and the reactions
    bring. Motives including but not limited to such as money, ideology, revenge, or the
    results of impaired judgement do not qualify. Lastly the fire setting cannot be better
    accounted for by another disorder or symptom. Pyromaniac behavior can be the
    product of other disorders so those must be ruled out first.
    Antar and Hollander describe various ways in which pyromania is treated. Research
    regarding treatment of pyromania is limited, often making it difficult to treat people
    with it. For example many drugs have been shown to help with pyromania such as
    antipsychotics and anticonvulsants, but no double blind studies have been done.
    Pyromania can also be caused by other disorders or situations making the right drug
    choice even harder. This results in doctors having to case by case analysis to

    determine what the best drug for their respective patients may be. Psychosocial
    treatments are also used to treat pyromania. Cognitive behavioral therapy has been
    shown to be the most effective form of therapy in reducing fire-setting, interest in
    fire, and playing with matches after one year. Fire safety training has also been
    shown to be as nearly as effective as cognitive behavioral therapy. Bringing those
    suffering from pyromania to one day intensive programs at burn units has also been
    shown to be very effective. Pyromania often begins in youth, and the earlier that is
    recognized and treated the better. The combined use of drugs and psychosocial
    treatments has been shown to be useful. As stated before, there is little evidence
    for all forms of treatment and much more research is needed to fully understand
    pyromania and the most effective ways to treat it.
    Most cases of pyromania occur in children, the exact causes of it are still not known
    due to lack of research as was a problem before, and at the very least the cause is
    most likely complex. However there are several neurobiological and
    neurophysiological bases of pyromania that are associated with other impulse
    control disorders that can be a cause. Environment and upbringing has also shown
    to have an effect. It has been noted that in many cases the child lacked a strong
    father figure.
    Rebekah Doley, 2003, Pyromania: Fact or Fiction, British Journal of Criminology,
    Volume 43, Pages 797-807
    Laura N. Antar, Eric Hollander, Gabbards Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders Fifth
    Edition, American Psychiatric Publishing, May 2014
    Sadock, B.J.; Sadock, V.A. (2008). Kaplan & Sadock's Concise Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry. Wolters
    Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 365

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