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Originally Posted by joshuas-mommy
What would someone have wrong with them if they set a fire as an expression of anger?
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When I was taking psychology as my minor (early 1990's), we used the term "disorders of impulse control" for phenomena like this.
In support of other posters to this thread:
1) The criminal act of setting fires, whether motivated by anger or by profit, is called arson.
2) The fire-setting may be a symptom of some other disorder; a thorough assessment by a psychologist or psychiatrist is in order. (correction: is indeed a symptom...)
One more thing, now that I noticed it: Welcome to Psych Central!