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Mental Disorders: Anxiety Disorders | Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder | Autism Spectrum Disorders | Bipolar Disorder | Child Behavior Disorders | Depression | Dissociative Disorders | Eating Disorders | Factitious Disorders | Impulse Control Disorders | Mental Retardation | Personality Disorders | Reactive Attachment Disorder | Schizophrenia | Sexual Disorders | Somatoform Disorders

Substance Abuse: General Substance Abuse | Substance Abuse by Juveniles |Treatment of Substance Abuse | Specific Abused Substances

Other Topics: General Mental Health | Treatment of Mental Disorders | Grief | Stress | Suicide | Co-Dependency and Dysfunctional Families


Impulse Control Disorders

(Jump to: Overview | Compulsive Gambling | Compulsive Sexual Behavior | Intermittent Explosive Disorder | Kleptomania | Pyromania | Self-Multilation | Trichotillomania )

Overview
Impulse Control Disorders:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine


Compulsive Gambling
Pathologic Gambling:American Academy of Family Physicians
Compulsive Gambling:Mayo Clinic
Problem Gamblers FAQs: National Council on Problem Gambling
New Treatment For Patients Struggling With Pathological Gambling:American Psychiatric Association
Gambling and Risk Taking:Society for Neuroscience
Gambling:MedlinePlus


Compulsive Sexual Behavior
Compulsive Sexual Behavior:Mayo Clinic


Intermittent Explosive Disorder
Intermittent Explosive Disorder:Mayo Clinic
Intermittent Explosive Disorder:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Controlling Anger Before It Controls You:American Psychological Association
Anger Management for Dummies:netLibrary
Violent Brains:Society for Neuroscience


Kleptomania
Kleptomania:Mayo Clinic


Pyromania
Pyromania:PsychNet-UK


Self-Mutilation
Self-Mutilation:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Self-Injury:MHA
Pain and Deliberate Self-Harm:The Wellcome Trust, UK
Self-Injury in Adolescents:AACAP
Cutting:Nemours Foundation [for Teens]
eBooks About Self-Mutilation:netLibrary [Login to netLibrary required]


Trichotillomania
Trichotillomania:MHA
About Trichotillomania:Trichotillomania Learning Center
Trichotillomania:Nemours Foundation [for Teens]


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