Clinical Psychiatry News, February 1st, 2005
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. -- Paraphilias should be thought of more as sexual disorders, rather than as anxiety disorders, H. Martin Malin, Ph.D., said in a poster presentation at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.
Although the DSM-IV Text Revision currently classifies paraphilias as sexual disorders, it has not always been so. "Beginning with the first DSM published in 1952, so-called sexual deviation was classified under the broad rubric of 'personality disorders,' specifically 'sociopathic personality disturbance,'" said Dr. Malin of the National Institute for t...
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