Voluntas

In Terran psychiatry, a voluntas (pl. voluntates; from Latin voluntās, "will, choice; inclination") is a psychiatric disorder characterized by an extreme psychic impulse to commit acts that defy social mores or flout moral laws. Such an impulse is not accompanied by hallucinations or unrealistic delusions, and the impulse usually occurs by itself. This category includes paraphilias (unusual sexual interests), impulse control disorders (inability to resist urges to perform undesirable acts), and persistent moral deviations.
== Diagnosis ==
A voluntas is a habit that defies societal mores and severely endangers others or violates their fundamental rights. Such a habit lasts for at least a year and the person afflicted with it typically does not consider it wrong or unpleasant.
== List of disorders ==
Voluntates comprise various disorders of the will and self-control that show utter disregard for particular societal norms without underlying sociopathy, such as paraphilias, impulse control disorders, and moral deviations.
=== Paraphilias ===
Paraphilias are disorders of sexual restraint, characterized by the inability to refrain from committing indecent sexual acts.
* Pedophilia is the pathological sexual obsession with children and intense desire to engage in sexual relations with them, evidentiated by an act.
* Zoophilia is desire to engage in sexual relations with animals, evidentiated by an act.
=== Impulse control disorders ===
Impulse control disorders are amoral or quasi-immoral habits that are generally looked down upon by society.
* Exhibitionism is the impulse to expose one's person in public.
=== Moral deviations ===
Moral deviations are disorders characterized by immoral behaviors.
* Anatreporexia is a moral deviation characterized by the sadistic need for control over others.
** Voluntas vincentī is a moral deviation characterized by the sadistic need to conquer other nations and exercise tyrannical control over them.
Category:Terran psychiatry
Category:Psychiatric disorders in Terra