TASK You are a psychologist. A person with pathological kleptomania comes to you for consultation. Like a kleptomaniac, he has an uncontrollable urge to steal. He can't help but steal. At the same time, your client is a person with pathological agoraphobia. As a person suffering from agoraphobia, he cannot leave the threshold of his house. Any attempt to leave the apartment is accompanied by severe sweating, dizziness, and nausea. These symptoms inevitably lead to a panic attack. In a process in which the premonition of impending doom is so intense that a person has to run into the apartment, slam the door behind him, lock the door with all the locks, breathe deeply, without even having time to reach the nearest store in order to steal something from it. Symptoms of agorophobia have developed recently, after suffering from Covid a year ago. Until the moment of illness, the person had lived with kleptomania for many years. PROBLEM Your client is forced to leave the apartment to steal. Your client cannot leave the house to steal. Related difficulties A person lives alone and does not have the opportunity to steal from people close to him. Stealing from oneself does not satisfy the urge to steal per se. The craving for theft is not satisfied by a theft arranged by relatives/friends; everything must be for real. Saturation occurs only in a situation where it faces objective danger. Therefore, leaving the house is necessary, but it is impossible to do. The client is torn apart by two mutually exclusive processes. On the one hand, he is tormented by a mania to steal, on the other hand, he is tormented by a phobia of leaving the aisles of the house. You have no way of establishing whether your client is a true, pathologically ill kleptomaniac - agorophobic, or is he a marginal - schizoid who invented this story in order to attract pay attention to yourself. He communicates with you via the Internet. THE QUESTION is where to start therapy, given that the client’s request is that he overcome agoraphobia, be able to leave the house and steal from nearby stores. How would they proceed and who would use the method of psychotherapy first? CBT 24/7. Effective help for Depression. Divorce. Anxiety.