Editing Pyromania (section)

==Classification==
===ICD===
The [[World Health Organization]]'s [[International Classification of Diseases]] (11th Revision) [[ICD-11]], regarded as the global standard, was released in June 2018 and came into full effect from January 2022.<ref name="WHO 2021">{{cite web |url=https://www.who.int/news/item/18-06-2018-who-releases-new-international-classification-of-diseases-(icd-11)|title=WHO releases new International Classification of Diseases (ICD 11) |website=World Health Organization |type=Press Release |access-date=29 October 2021}}</ref><ref name="Pickett & Anderson">{{Cite report | vauthors = Pickett D, Anderson RN | title=Status on ICD-11: The WHO Launch | url=https://ncvhs.hhs.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ICD-11_WHO-v_7-17-2018.pdf | date=18 July 2018 | publisher=[[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention|CDC]]/[[National Center for Health Statistics|NCHS]]}}</ref> It states the following about pyromania:<ref name=icd11 >{{cite web|url=https://www.findacode.com/icd-11/code-1532500290.html|title=6C70 Pyromania|access-date=13 February 2025}}</ref>

{{Blockquote|text=Pyromania is characterised by a recurrent failure to control strong impulses to set fires, resulting in multiple acts of, or attempts at, setting fire to property or other objects, in the absence of an apparent motive (e.g., monetary gain, revenge, sabotage, political statement, attracting attention or recognition). There is an increasing sense of tension or affective arousal prior to instances of fire setting, persistent fascination or preoccupation with fire and related stimuli (e.g., watching fires, building fires, fascination with firefighting equipment), and a sense of pleasure, excitement, relief or gratification during, and immediately after the act of setting the fire, witnessing its effects, or participating in its aftermath.|title=ICD-11|source=chapter 6, section C70}}

It also notes that pyromania has no relation to [[Intellectual disability|intellectual impairment]], [[substance abuse]], or other mental and behavioral disorder.<ref name=icd11 /> ICD-11 was produced by professionals from 55 countries out of the 90 countries involved and is one of the most widely used reference worldwide by clinicians, with the other being the [[Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders]] ([[DSM-5-TR]] from 2022, [[DSM-5]] from 2013, or their predecessors).<ref name="Pickett & Anderson" />

===DSM===
The [[American Psychiatric Association]]'s ''Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, First Edition'' ([[DSM-5]]), released in 1952, categorized pyromania as a subset of [[obsessive–compulsive disorder]]. In the [[DSM-2|Second Edition]], the disorder was dropped. In the [[DSM-3|Third Edition]], it returned under the category of impulse-control disorders.<ref name="Emergency Live">{{cite web |url=https://www.emergency-live.com/firefighters/pyromania-icd-11-classification-causes-symptoms-characteristics-risks-treatment-medication/ |title=Pyromania: ICD-11 Classification, Causes, Symptoms, Characteristics, Risks, Treatment, Medication |last=Antonino |first=Cristiano |date=4 May 2022 |website=emergency-live.com |publisher=Emergency Live |access-date=30 July 2022}}</ref>

The ''Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision'' ([[DSM-5-TR]]), released in 2022, states that the essential feature of pyromania is "the presence of multiple episodes of deliberate and purposeful fire setting."<ref name = dsm>{{cite book | last = American Psychiatric Association| author-link = American Psychiatric Association | title = Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-V (Text Revision) | volume = 1 | pages = 476–477 |date = May 2013 |publisher = American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. | location = Arlington, VA, USA | isbn = 978-0-89042-555-8 |title-link = Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders }}</ref> Pyromania moved from the [[DSM-IV]] chapter "Impulse-Control Disorders Not Otherwise Specified," to the chapter "Disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders" in the DSM-5.<ref name="DSM5 Changes">{{cite web |title=Highlights of Changes from DSM-IV-TR to DSM-5 |url=http://www.psychiatry.org/File%20Library/Practice/DSM/DSM-5/Changes-from-DSM-IV-TR--to-DSM-5.pdf |date=17 May 2013 |publisher=[[American Psychiatric Association]] |archive-date=26 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226050453/http://www.psychiatry.org/File%20Library/Practice/DSM/DSM-5/Changes-from-DSM-IV-TR--to-DSM-5.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>