Explore: Psychopathology Compulsive Behavior

such behaviors and impulses as a separate pathology. Hypersexual behaviors are viewed by clinicians and therapists as a type of obsessive–compulsive disorder

Body-focused repetitive behavior (BFRB) is an umbrella name for impulse-control behaviors involving compulsively damaging one's physical appearance or

(2008). "The neural bases of obsessive-compulsive disorder in children and adults". Development and Psychopathology. 20 (4): 1251–1283. doi:10.1017/S0954579408000606

deficits in the ability to inhibit repetitive behavior with known negative consequences, while compulsivity persists as a consequence of deficits in recognizing

sexologists, and other specialists whether compulsive sexual behavior constitutes an addiction – in this instance a behavioral addiction – and therefore its classification

Sprock J (2000). "Gender-Typed Behavioral Examples of Histrionic Personality Disorder". Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment. 22 (2): 107–122

Psychopathology is the study of mental illness. It includes the signs and symptoms of all mental disorders. The field includes abnormal cognition, maladaptive

Animal psychopathology is the study of mental or behavioral disorders in non-human animals. Historically, there has been an anthropocentric tendency to

disorders. CBT includes a number of cognitive or behavioral psychotherapies that treat defined psychopathologies using evidence-based techniques and strategies

the framework to diagnose and categorize behavioral addiction is a controversial topic in the psychopathology field. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual