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===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>
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