The motive is important. If someone is an alcoholic or simply an evil person and wants to harm someone, a neighbor or the like, and cause a fire, then this is not the disorder we are talking about.
Pyromania belongs to the same category of disorders with kleptomania and trichotillomania (urge to pull your hair, eyebrows, etc.) and very rarely doctors have contact with people suffering from this disorder.
Pyromania is a mental illness manifested by an obsession with fire and lighting a fire. Arsonists often set fires to meet their needs. Pyromania (pyro- + -mania), a sick instinct for repeated, deliberate and deliberate arson. Such an activity is directly preceded by a feeling of increased tension or affect, and its completion evokes a feeling of comfort, satisfaction, and relief. Psychoanalysts believe that arsonists have a urethral-erotic personality (many have been urinating in bed for a long time).
It is important, he says, to distinguish between motives. Arsonists are driven solely by their preoccupation with fire. ‘They accumulate tension and it is released the moment they light a fire. They tend to be near firefighters and help put out fires. They often use and possess means for lighting and extinguishing fires', he enumerates the basic characteristics of arsonists.
However, one of the main characteristics is the lack of empathy and they do not understand that they are doing harm to others. Such an unsympathetic way of life does not exist only with them, but with those with a personality disorder. Often in such persons, pyromania is only a secondary diagnosis. Fortunately, most of those one percent of the total population, who have such a disorder, do not realize their instincts to burn. ‘Imagine what it would be like if they all started firing,’ he points out.