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According to psychologists the majority of people who suffer from this disease are women that may continue their suffering for 15 years and sometimes even more.
Kleptomania was the disease that always provoked negative attitude to people sick with it because ordinary and healthy people couldn’t understand how the person can’t stop from taking something from supermarket referring such behaviour to bad education.
Kleptomania doesn’t suppose that kleptomaniac has no conscience. He/she really has it, simply he/she can’t fight his/her disease and such people must be medically treated. Kleptomania can be treated with the help of hypnosis. Unfortunately, only 15% of people ill with kleptomania turn to doctors for help.
Scientists have tried to solve the mystery of kleptomania for a long time already. This disease is unique that is why there are no theories how to fight it.
There are a lot of medical vocabularies and encyclopaedias that mention this disease. According to statistics about 5% of all burglars are kleptomaniacs in reality.
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Kleptomania as sexual satisfaction
Usually kleptomaniacs realize what they are doing and that they are stealing things remembering perfectly the moment of stealing. The unconscious formula of kleptomaniacs is "if you don't give me it I'll take it by myself."
If it is true that kleptomaniac wants to regain the lost sexual satisfaction that would be the defence, the excuse and regulator of self-respect then the stolen thing must symbolize the milk. But it is not the only version.
Kleptomania can also reflect the desire to have the objects that may also be reflection of sexually connected things such as penis, baby, breast, etc. especially if the desire to have these objects is connected with the oral excitement. The importance of different unconscious things meaning depends on the former fixations of the patient.
During the simplest disorders the meaning of penis can play an important role. It explains the spread of kleptomania among women. "Stealing a penis" is the main fantasy of some women with the unconscious desire to revenge. This is the reflection of the attempt to manifest aggression when a woman can't do it directly. But the desire of boys to have penis is not the absurd also. They want to have big penis similar to the one of their fathers.
But the most complicated type of kleptomania is the one where the conflict between the psyche ego and superego is present. Patients try to persuade themselves that they have the right to steal because they didn't get enough love. But usually such persuading has no results and they feel guilty