Kleptomania Case Study

Psychodynamic perspective talks about a person's unconscious desire
,needs, and conflicts. Kleptomania can be a defense to one's unconscious desires and needs the case study in (The journal of psychiatry and neurological sciences) proves that. The young lady involved was raised by her grandmother even though her mother lived in the same house as her. She needed love from her mother but she never gave it to her she soon began to see love as an object. Her kleptomania flared up whenever she did not feel loved. Also, stress from another disorder may bring on kleptomania your unconscious desires to not face your problems could drive you to steal.An example of this is that kleptomania is connected to people who have a high level of anxiety. Your unconscious motivations clashing with your conscious motivations can cause you to feel anxiety which can lead to kleptomania to relevel that stress.The most common treatment would be going to therapy and finding out why you …show more content…
Although most people do not have kleptomania because of genetics it can be passed down from a first blood relative if they had it or if they had obsessive-compulsive disorder. You can also have a chemical imbalance in your central nervous system you could have a low level of sterion which regulates moods and emotions. Most people feel a pleasurable feeling when they steal when the brain feels pleasure it releases dopamine people can get very addicted to that feeling so they continue to steal. A trauma to your head at a young age can also be caused say you fall damage the left side of your brain which is responsible for logic reasoning or you damage your prefrontal cortex which is also responsible for logic reasoning. Without those parts of your brain, you may not be able to reason why stealing could lead to negative consequences. You can take medications to help you stop stealing you could take mood stabilizers, and addiction