DSM-5 and the Decision Not to Include Sex, Shopping or Stealing as Addictions

Current Addiction Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 172-176

  Piquet Pessôa, Marcelo ^a   Ferreira, Gabriela M ^a   Melca, Isabela A ^a   Fontenelle, Leonardo F ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b D OR INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IDOR   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Behavioral addictions; Compulsive buying; Compulsive sex; Compulsive shopping; DSM 5; Hypersexual disorder; Kleptomania; Shoplifting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994335815     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21962952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40429-014-0027-6     Document Type: Review

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