Editing Pyromania (section)

==Causes==
Most studied cases of pyromania occur in children and teenagers.{{r|gale1998}} There is a range of causes, but an understanding of the different motives and actions of fire setters can provide a platform for prevention. Common causes of pyromania can be broken down into two main groups: individual and environmental. This includes the complex understanding of factors such as individual temperament, parental psychopathology, and possible neurochemical predispositions.<ref name="psycnet.apa.org">{{cite journal|title=Pyromania and Firesetting Behaviors |journal=Psychiatric Annals |first=Stephen M |last=Soltys |date=1 February 1992 |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=79–83 |doi=10.3928/0048-5713-19920201-10 }}</ref> Many studies have shown that patients with pyromania were in households without a father figure present.<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=Kaplan & Sadock's Concise Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry|author1=Sadock, B.J.|author2=Sadock, V.A.|date=2008|publisher=Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins|isbn=9780781787468|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ubG51n2NgfwC|page=365|access-date=27 February 2015}}</ref>

=== Environmental ===
Environmental factors that may lead to pyromania include an event that the patient has experienced in the environment they live in. Environmental factors include [[neglect]] from parents and physical or emotional abuse in earlier life. Other causes include early experiences of watching adults or teenagers using fire inappropriately and lighting fires as a stress reliever.{{r|frey}} Experiences of boredom, or a lack of stimulation within the environment can also be an environmental factor which contributes to acts of pyromania.<ref name=":0" />

=== Individual ===
Individual factors contributing to pyromania include emotions and intrinsic drives. One individual factor that could lead to pyromania is feelings of inadequacy, where the individual has the perception that they are not good enough.<ref name=":1" /> This factor is related to the environment in that the perception of inadequacy is derived from environmental events, however when this perception is internalised it becomes an individual factor. Another factor contributing to pyromania is feelings of stress. This could be the buildup of stress over a duration of time or an isolated stressful event.<ref name=":1" /> Patients with pyromania report urges, or intrinsic drives, to set fires.<ref name=":2" /> These fire setting drives can lead to feelings of tension or stress within the individual, and fire setting resolves this tension. Fire setting has also been shown to provide a ‘rush’ of physiological arousal for patients, which produces pleasure. This arousal acts as a positive reinforcer which perpetuates the behaviour and motivates its recurrence.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last1=Grant |first1=Jon E. |title=Oxford Handbook of Impulse Control Disorders |last2=Potenza |first2=Marc N. |date=2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press, USA |isbn=978-0-19-990920-9 |series=Oxford Library of Psychology |location=s.l}}</ref> While not always a cause of the initial fire setting behaviour itself, this tension, and ‘rush’, acts as a cause of pyromania once the initial behaviour has been performed because it drives the same behaviour in the future.<ref name=":2" />