Impulse Control Disorders

by Elias Aboujaoude and Elias Aboujaoude Md

In the last decade, much needed attention and research has been focused on the group of psychiatric conditions termed 'impulse control disorders' or ICDs. Pathological gambling, compulsive shopping, kleptomania, hypersexuality, Internet 'addiction', among other disorders, are characterized by a recurrent urge to perform a repetitive behavior that is gratifying in the moment but causes significant long-term distress and disability. Despite the high...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521898706
• ISBN13: 9780521898706
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 10.0"