461Disruptive, Impulse-Control,
and Conduct Disorders
Disruptive, impulse-control,  and conduct disorders include conditions involv-
ing problems in the self-control of emotions  and behaviors. While other disorders in DSM-
5 may also involve problems in  emotional and/or behavioral  regulation, the disorders in
this chapter are unique in that these problems  are manifested in behaviors that violate the
rights of others (e.g., aggression, destructio n of property) and/or that bring the individual
into significant conflict with societal norms or  authority figures. The underlying causes of
the problems in the self-control of emotions  and behaviors can vary greatly across the dis-
orders in this chapter and among individu als within a given diagnostic category. 
The chapter includes opposition al defiant disorder, intermi ttent explosive disorder, con-
duct disorder, antisocial person ality disorder (which is described in the chapter “Personality
Disorders”), pyromania, kleptomania, and ot her specified and unspecified disruptive, im-
pulse-control, and conduct disorders. Althou gh all the disorders in the chapter involve
problems in both emotional and behavioral re gulation, the source of variation among the
disorders is the relative emphas is on problems in the two types of self-control. For example,
the criteria for conduct disorder focus largely on poorly controlled behaviors that violate the
rights of others or that violat e major societal norms. Many of  the behavioral symptoms (e.g.,
aggression) can be a result of poorly controlled  emotions such as anger. At the other extreme,
the criteria for intermittent explosive disorder  focus largely on such poorly controlled emo-
tion, outbursts of anger that are disproportionate to the interpersonal or other provocation
or to other psychosocial  stressors. Intermediate in impact to these two disorders is opposi-