Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 44, Issue 6 , Pages 437-441 , November 2003

Family history and psychiatric comorbidity in persons with kleptomania

  • Jon E Grant

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Jon E. Grant, J.D., M.D., Brown University School of Medicine, 345 Blackstone Blvd, Providence, RI 02906, USA
    • Department of Psychiatry, Brown Medical School and Butler Hospital, Providence, RI, USA

References 

  1. Goldman MJ. Kleptomania (an overview). Psychiatr Ann. 1992;22:68–71
  2. American Psychiatric Association . Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). Ed. 4. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association; 1994;
  3. McElroy SL, Hudson JI, Pope HG, Keck PE. Kleptomania (clinical characteristics and associated psychopathology). Psychol Med. 1991;21:93–108
  4. McElroy SL, Pope HG, Hudson JI, Keck PE, White KL. Kleptomania (a report of 20 cases). Am J Psychiatry. 1991;148:652–657
  5. Grant JE, Kim SW. Clinical characteristics and associated psychopathology of 22 patients with kleptomania. Compr Psychiatry. 2002;43:378–384
  6. Presta S, Marazziti D, Dell’Osso L, Pfanner C, Pallanti S, Cassano GB. Kleptomania (clinical features and comorbidity in an Italian sample). Compr Psychiatry. 2002;43:7–12
  7. McElroy SL, Hudson JI, Pope HG, Keck PE, Aizley HG. The DSM-III-R impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (clinical characteristics and relationship to other psychiatric disorders). Am J Psychiatry. 1992;149:318–327
  8. First MB, Spitzer RL, Gibbon M, Williams JBW. Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Patient Edition (SCID-I/P, Version 2.0). New York, NY: Biometrics Research Department, New York State Psychiatric Institute; 1995;
  9. Christenson GA, Faber RJ, de Zwaan M, Raymond NS, Specker SM, Ekern MD, et al.  Compulsive buying (descriptive characteristics and psychiatric comorbidity). J Clin Psychiatry. 1994;55:5–11
  10. Andreasen NC, Endicott J, Spitzer RL, Winokur G. The family history method using diagnostic criteria (reliability and validity). Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1979;34:1229–1235
  11. McElroy SL, Hudson JI, Phillips KA, Keck PE, Pope HG. Clinical and theoretical implications of a possible link between obsessive-compulsive and impulse control disorders. Depression. 1993;1:121–132
  12. McElroy SL, Pope HG, Keck PE, Hudson JI, Phillips KA, Strakowski SM. Are impulse-control disorders related to bipolar disorder?. Compr Psychiatry. 1996;37:229–240
  13. McElroy SL, Phillips KA, Keck PE. Obsessive compulsive spectrum disorder. J Clin Psychiatry. 1994;55:33–51
  14. Kim SW. Opioid antagonists in the treatment of impulse control disorders. J Clin Psychiatry. 1998;59:159–164
  15. Slutske WS, Eisen S, True WR, Lyons MJ, Goldberg J, Tsuang M. Common genetic vulnerability for pathological gambling and alcohol dependence in men. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2000;57:666–673
  16. Sher KJ, Walitzer KS, Wood P. Characteristics of children of alcoholics (putative risk factors, substance abuse and psychopathology). J Abnormal Psychol. 1991;100:427–448
  17. Chapman TF, Mannuzza S, Klein DF, Fyer AJ. Effects of informant mental disorder on psychiatric family history data. Am J Psychiatry. 1994;151:574–579
  18. Heun R, Maier W, Muller H. Subject and informant variables affecting family history diagnoses of depression and dementia. Psychiatry Res. 1997;71:175–180
  19. Kendler KS, Prescott CA, Jacobson K, Myers J, Neale MC. The joint analysis of personal interview and family history diagnoses (evidence for validity of diagnosis and increased heritability estimates). Psychol Med. 2002;32:829–842
  20. Goldman MJ. Kleptomania (The Compulsion to Steal—What Can Be Done?). Far Hills, NJ: New Horizon Press; 1998;

PII: S0010-440X(03)00150-0

doi: 10.1016/S0010-440X(03)00150-0

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 44, Issue 6 , Pages 437-441 , November 2003