Paraphilic Disorders
Resources for Patients and Caregivers
Paraphilic disorders are recurrent, intense, sexually arousing fantasies, urges, or behaviors that are distressing or disabling and that involve inanimate objects, children or nonconsenting adults, or suffering or humiliation of oneself or the partner with the potential to cause harm.
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Wiki Number: 35-Paraphila (Sex-Related) Disorder
Diagnosis: (previously known as sexual perversion and sexual deviation)
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Symptoms: “Paraphilia” has 549 variations of unusual sexual interests. They are permanent.
Progression: Wikipedia presents an extensive history of “normalizing” these urges and acts.
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Therapies: Currently, they are designed to reduce the patient’s anxieties but eliminate criminal actions.
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Resources for Physicians, Counselors and Researchers
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- Relationship between childhood abuse and self-harm among transvestites and transgender women in Rio de Janeiro state 2019-2020by Davi Depret on January 15, 2025
CONCLUSION: Childhood abuse, as well as the experience of stigmatizing diseases, increased the risk of self-harm among this population.
- The Changes in ICD-11 Related to Sexual Health and Dysfunction and Their Implication for Clinical Practiceby Koray Başar on January 13, 2025
The classification of sexual health-related conditions was reformulated in 11th revision of International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) following current evidence, best practice, and taking human rights into consideration, which is expected to reflect and provide guidance for more integrative clinical approaches. Overcoming the artificial, yet historical, distinction between "organic" and "non-organic" conditions, sexual dysfunctions classified in the "Mental and Behavioral Disorders" and...
- Hormone use among the transgender, transvestites and non-binary population of Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2021: a cross-sectional studyby Lara Colles de Oliva Araujo on December 19, 2024
CONCLUSION: This study demonstrated high prevalence of hormone use, highlighted specific patterns of use across different gender identities, and the need for improvements in access to healthcare services.
- Subcultural Representations of Perpetrators and Victims of Crime and Violence Associated with Mental Disordersby Fabian Pavez on December 19, 2024
CONCLUSIONS: The relationships between mental disorders and criminality/violence are overemphasised in the analysed subculture. A positive connotation of social deviance and violent content (particularly serial murder) in service to the provocative nature of this type of music was observed.