PSYCH 139: Kleptomania
Medlock Holmes enters a vast Neo-Victorian department store where an unusual investigation is underway.
An object has been stolen.
But the person who took it did not need it. The object had little personal importance. They could easily have afforded it. They may not even use it afterwards - sometimes the stolen objects are hidden, hoarded, given away or even secretly returned.
So Holmes asks the question that defines the investigation:
“If they did not need the object, why did they steal it?”
Kleptomania is characterised by a recurrent failure to resist impulses to steal objects that are not…
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