Impulse-Control Disorders in Forensic Psychiatry
Jerzy Pobocha Abstract Based on the analysis of the literature, the paper discusses problems of impulse control disorder diagnoses, coded in ICD-10 as the F63, and the results of epidemiological studies on the prevalence of these disorders. In 2009, 169 patients diagnosed with F63 were hospitalized in Poland, including 143 pathological gambling, 5 kleptomania and…