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The Paraphilias, Obsessive Compulsive Spectrum Disorder, and the Treatment of Sexually Deviant Behaviour

Abstract

The paraphilias have been mostly ignored by psychiatry, even though psychiatrists are ideally suited to treat and diagnose these disorders by virtue of their medical and psychological training. The sexual deviations require an understanding of both biological and psychological causation and skills in psychological and pharmacological treatments. More recently the Supreme Court of the United States in Kansas v Hendricks (1997) upheld the …

Authors

Bradford JMW

Journal

Psychiatric Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 3, pp. 209–219

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

3 1999

DOI

10.1023/a:1022099026059

ISSN

0033-2720