Pyromania
Pyromania as delineated by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is an impulse control disorder. In Impulse control disorders a person is not able to resist an urge or impulse to destroy. To give a pyromania diagnosis, the DSM-5 criteria states that following things must be evident in the client:
1. The person must purposefully set fires on more than one occasion.
2. The person experiences tension prior to setting of fires and release of tension post action.
3. The person must have an intense attraction to fire and its paraphernalia.
4. The person is found to derive pleasure from setting or seeing fires.
A person is diagnosed with pyromania can only when don’t set fires for a type of materialistic gain, like money, to express anger or vengeance, for ideological reasons, to cover up another criminal act, to improve one’s circumstances in response to delusions or hallucinations for impaired judgements.