An impulse-control disorder involving the recurrent failure to resist urges to steal things for neither personal nor monetary value is called
A)pyromania.
B)kleptomania.
C)trichotillomania.
D)erotomania.

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Kleptomania is an impulse-control disorder characterized by recurrent failure to resist urges to steal things that are not needed for personal use or for their monetary value. Pyromania involves the deliberate and repeated setting of fires, trichotillomania is the recurrent pulling out of one's own hair, and erotomania is a delusional condition where a person believes that someone else is in love with them.

An Impulse-Control Disorder Involving the Recurrent Failure to Resist Urges