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Firesetting in an Adolescent Boy with Asperger's Syndrome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Ian Paul Everall  and
Ann Lecouteur
Ian Paul Everall*
Affiliation:
Department of Neuropathology, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5
Ann Lecouteur
Affiliation:
Department of Child Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5
*
∗Correspondence
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Firesetting in children and adolescents is commonly associated with other antisocial acts that comprise conduct disorders. Asperger's syndrome is a rare pervasive developmental disorder. In the case presented we argue that the firesetting arose from the disabilities inherent in Asperger's syndrome. This also indicates that antisocial acts may be symptoms in other psychiatric syndromes as well as a specific conduct disorder.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 157 , Issue 2 , August 1990 , pp. 284 - 287
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1990 

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