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Treatment of kleptomania with fluvoxamine

S A Chong¹, B L Low

¹Institute of Mental Health, Singapore.

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

|April 1, 1996

Abstract:

We report a patient fulfilling DSM-IV criteria for kleptomania who failed to respond to psychotherapy, behavioural therapy and pharmacotherapy with clomipramine, imipramine and lithium. He was successfully treated with the serotonergic agent fluvoxamine.

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