Embarking in the first chapter, we immediately realize that Sasha is tempted by an opportune moment to snatch a wallet she spots in a public bathroom. She could’ve just walked away, however she failed to resist her kleptomania urges. In a split moment, she convinced herself that taking the wallet would serve a purpose: it would teach the stranger a lesson to not be so trustworthy. From this anecdote we know of her destructive disease, that not only affects her, but also the community around her. She is condoning her own shortcoming by making it the fault of the affected party. It is damaging of the cohesiveness of community feeling, it detracts from a social perspective and focuses on the individual, rather than the collective. This thinking
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During her therapy session with Dr. Coz she remarks every last detail of her kleptomania episode, in an infructuous attempt to solve her mental disorder of stealing, an affliction that she acquired shortly after the disappearance of her father when she was young. Dr. Coz would raise the question in a subtle manner to link the source of her disorder to her father, “in more one occasion her therapist tried to connect her issue with her father abandonment at the young age of six” (Egan, 11). This turmoil of a childhood, fueled by abruptly losing her father, derived into her kleptomania compulsion. The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10) of Classification of Mental and Behavioral Disorders, defines kleptomania as a disorder that is characterized by repeated failure to resist impulses to steal objects that are not acquired for personal use or monetary gain. The objects may be instead discarded, given away or hoarded. She tried to fill the void left by the absent father, and obtain the satisfaction and affection she was denied during her
During her therapy session with Dr. Coz she remarks every last detail of her kleptomania episode, in an infructuous attempt to solve her mental disorder of stealing, an affliction that she acquired shortly after the disappearance of her father when she was young. Dr. Coz would raise the question in a subtle manner to link the source of her disorder to her father, “in more one occasion her therapist tried to connect her issue with her father abandonment at the young age of six” (Egan, 11). This turmoil of a childhood, fueled by abruptly losing her father, derived into her kleptomania compulsion. The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10) of Classification of Mental and Behavioral Disorders, defines kleptomania as a disorder that is characterized by repeated failure to resist impulses to steal objects that are not acquired for personal use or monetary gain. The objects may be instead discarded, given away or hoarded. She tried to fill the void left by the absent father, and obtain the satisfaction and affection she was denied during her