Paraphilic Disorders
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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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- 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.
- Paraphilias, problematic sexual behaviours and personality disorder-To what extent are they linked?by Jessica Yakeley on November 21, 2024
CONCLUSIONS: Paraphilic fantasies and behaviours may be linked to underlying personality pathology, suggesting implications for assessment and treatment.
- Self-reported and physiological stress indicators and the moderating role of the Dark Tetrad in violent and non-violent gamingby Gary L Wagener on October 31, 2024
Playing non-violent video games has been shown to reduce perceived levels of stress (Pallavicini et al., 2021). Does this effect also apply to violent game content? As findings suggest a particular preference for such games among people with certain personality traits, such as the Dark Tetrad (i.e., Machiavellianism, everyday sadism, subclinical psychopathy, and narcissism; e.g., Bonfá-Araujo et al., 2022; Greitemeyer, 2015; Greitemeyer & Sagioglou, 2017) do these traits influence the stress...