Difference between Irresistible Impulse and Compulsion

IRRESISTIBLE IMPULSE vs COMPULSION: NOUN

Using force to cause something to occur
The lawful use of violence (i.e. by the administration).
The use of authority, influence, or other power to force (compel) a person or persons to act.
An irrational need to perform some action, often despite negative consequences.
The act of compelling, or the state of being compelled; the act of driving or urging by force or by physical or moral constraint; subjection to force.
The application (to a person) of superior force, physical or moral, overpowering or overruling his preferences; the force applied; constraint, physical or moral.
An act or acts performed in response to such an impulse.
An irresistible impulse to act, regardless of the rationality of the motivation.
The state of being compelled.
The act of compelling.
An irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions against your will
An urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid
Using force to cause something

Pyromania, Psychopath, Sociopathic, Unreasoned, Insane, Compulsivity, Oedipal complex, Maniac, Irrational, Lunatic, Psychotic, Rageful, Insanity, Sociopath, Compulsion

Pressure, Imposition, Compulsory, Oppression, Requirement, Straitjacket, Coercive, Duress, Obligation, Urge, Constraint, Impulse, Irresistible impulse, Obsession, Coercion

Pyromania, Psychopath, Sociopathic, Unreasoned, Insane, Compulsivity, Oedipal complex, Maniac, Irrational, Lunatic, Psychotic, Rageful, Insanity, Sociopath, Compulsion

Coercing, Stress, Forcible, Pressure, Compulsory, Oppression, Requirement, Coercive, Duress, Obligation, Urge, Constraint, Impulse, Obsession, Coercion

Naghten rules, along with the irresistible impulse test, a legal test for sanity, under close public scrutiny in the United States.
However, in the state of Wyoming, irresistible impulse is not a defense allowed under the statutory insanity defense construct.
The test has different names, but is probably best known as the irresistible impulse test.
White Fang to experience the irresistible impulse to rush upon him and destroy him.
On the other hand, irresistible impulse as a basis for negativing criminal responsibility is semantically unsatisfactory and possibly subject to abuse.
Another form of the insanity defense is volitional insanity, or irresistible impulse.
An individual having an irresistible impulse to start fires.
The judge and jury will then be given the difficult task of differentia ting between an irresistible impulse and an impulse not resisted.
The line between an irresistible impulse and an impulse not resisted is probably no sharper than that between twilight and dusk.
In practice, this test is problematic because of the difficulty in distinguishing the irresistible impulse from the impulse that was not resisted.

Informed consent: an ethical obligation or legal compulsion?
This is where addiction and compulsion are born.
There is no compulsion to join once selected?
They were against jingoism, heavy armaments and compulsion.
There is no element of compulsion in it.
Preventing a compulsion or compensatory behavior is essential.
Compulsion to attend a church is compulsion to engage in a religious practice, something that no regulatory exemption requires.
It is compulsion of the accused to exhibit his physical characteristics, not compulsion to disclose any knowledge he might have.
Fish suffered from a second compulsion, a compulsion to write obscene letters and did so frequently.
These include Assessment Orders, Treatment Orders, Interim Compulsion Orders, Temporary Compulsion Orders, Compulsion Orders, Compulsion Orders with Restriction Orders, Guardianship Orders, and Hospit