Pedophilia, diagnostics
About:
Archives of Sexual behavior, December 2002: Gieles, F.E.J., Is
pedophilia a mental disorder? Discussion in Archives of Sexual Behavior;
Report.
Gieles, F.E.J., Is
pedophilia a mental disorder? Discussion in Archives of Sexual Behavior;
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Gieles, F.E.J., There must be a scapegoat; Pitfalls,
traps and mistakes in forensic personality investigation, 2006
Malón, Agustin; Pedophilia: a Diagnosis in Search of a
Disorder; Archives of Sexual Behavior; Feb 25 2012
Some years ago an interesting controversy arose as to whether pedophilia, or paraphilias in general, should be included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the catalogue of mental disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). A fifth edition is now being developed. Given the importance that psychiatric diagnoses can have in the field of individual rights and freedoms, a critical reassessment of these issues is important.
Some of the ideas in this analysis could also be applied to other paraphilias, but the focus on pedophilia demonstrates conceptual problems that reveal the lack of a real medical paradigm and the risks of the forensic paradigm.
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