Ch 13 SEXUAL DISORDERS
PARAPHILIAS
Sexual urges or fantasies involving nonhuman objects, nonconsenting persons, suffering/humiliation, or children.
ETIOLOGY
Psychoanalytic
Oedipal fixation with emphasis on castration anxiety
Behavioral
Classical Conditioning
i.e. by chance, sexual arousal is paired with a particular object or activity
Operant Conditioning
i.e. paraphilias are substitute sources of sexual gratification resulting from deficits in social and sexual functioning
TREATMENT
Biogenic
Surgical Castration (pedophilia)
Chemical Therapy (
Depoprovera
)(
REDUCES TESTOSTERONE LEVEL)
Psychoanalytical
Insight Therapy
Behavioral
Aversive Conditioning
Orgasmic Reorientation
Social Skills Training
WEBCAST="OBJECTS OF DESIRE:THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXUAL FETISHES"
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