Changes in impulse control disorder features in a present kleptomania patient and importance of rational treatment strategy on social dangerousness. a case report
The argument of the present article is the case of a 52 year-old male suffering from compulsive
disorders (cocaine addiction, gambling, kleptomania) since adolescence, with behavioural
and clinical features changing over time and poorly influenced by pharmacological
treatments.
At present the patient shows kleptomanic behaviour pharmacologically treated with antipsychotics,
antidepressants and anxiolytics. No specific treatment for compulsive spectrum
appears to have been effected along the clinical history of the patient.