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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- Symptoms of exhibitionism that regress with bupropion: A case reportby Sefa Vayısoğlu on January 23, 2023
Exhibitionistic Disorder, one of the paraphilic disorders, is a disease with an unknown etiology and causes significant distress and loss of function in the patient's life. Serotonergic antidepressants are generally preferred in the treatment of this Disorder. However, in this case, we report a patient who did not respond to serotonergic antidepressants but bupropion, an antidepressant with dopaminergic and noradrenergic activity. Therefore, bupropion should be considered a medical treatment...
- Acquired Pedophilia: international Delphi-method-based consensus guidelinesby Cristina Scarpazza on January 18, 2023
Idiopathic and acquired pedophilia are two different disorders with two different etiologies. However, the differential diagnosis is still very difficult, as the behavioral indicators used to discriminate the two forms of pedophilia are underexplored, and clinicians are still devoid of clear guidelines describing the clinical and neuroscientific investigations suggested to help them with this difficult task. Furthermore, the consequences of misdiagnosis are not known, and a consensus regarding...
- I enjoy hurting my classmates: On the relation of boredom and sadism in schoolsby Stefan Pfattheicher on January 14, 2023
Schools can be a place of both love and of cruelty. We examined one type of cruelty that occurs in the school context: sadism, that is, harming others for pleasure. Primarily, we proposed and tested whether boredom plays a crucial role in the emergence of sadistic actions at school. In two well-powered studies (N = 1038; student age range = 10-18 years) using both self- and peer-reports of students' boredom levels and their sadistic tendencies, we first document that sadistic behavior occurs at...
- Masochismby Dominique Bourdin on December 19, 2022
This text presents how Freud thinks about the masochism. In 1915, it is the return of active sadism in a passive drive which is characteristic of masochism, always secondary. In 1919, he sees in masochism the genesis of perversions. And the article of 1924 knows a primary masochism and distinguishes erotogenic masochism, feminine masochism and moral masochism. After Freud, many studies of clinical forms of masochism can be noted, and in France there is a thesis about the masochism as a first...