Perception features of the sexual preference object in persons with pedophilia depending on the attitude to sexual desire

Dvoryanchikov N.V.; Makarova T.E.; Yushina N.N.

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Psychology and Law
2016. Vol. 6, no. 1, 120–131
doi:10.17759/psylaw.2016060110
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Perception features of the sexual preference object in persons with pedophilia depending on the attitude to sexual desire ²⁰⁰⁰

Dvoryanchikov N.V.
PhD in Psychology, Dean, Faculty of Legal and Forensic Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russia
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1462-5469
e-mail: dvorian@gmail.com

Makarova T.E.
Laboratory Assistant Laboratory forensic sexology, State Organization "State Research Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry. VP Serbian "Russian Health Ministry., Moscow, Russia
e-mail: Makarovatoma@mail.ru

Yushina N.N.
student, Department of Legal Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology & Education, Moscow, Russia
e-mail: natalia-dan@mail.ru

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The article examines expert and diagnostic aspects of "ego-sintonic / ego-dystonic" types of attitudes to sexual desire and describes importance of studying the basis of desire in the context of sexual offenses against minors. We present results of empirical research which aims to study perception features of the sexual preference object in persons with pedophilia depending on the attitude to sexual desire. The study based on data provided by laboratory of forensic sexology, V.P. Serbsky Federal Medical Research Center of Psychiatry and Addiction, Ministry of Health Care of the Russian Federation. The sample consisted of 30 men with such sexual desire disorder as pedophilia. The results analysis showing differences in the perception of the object of sexual desire according to different attitude to the desire. The results indicate that different types of attitudes to sexual desire correspond to certain characteristics of the perception object. Identified patterns can be used in the creating the criminal prospective portrait, dealing with expert issues, developing correction and preventive programs for patients with a diagnosis of pedophilia.

Keywords: pedophilia, ego-syntonic / ego-dystonic form of attitude to sexual desire, abnormal sexual behavior, object of sexual preference, perception features.

Column: Forensic and Clinical Psychology in Legal Context

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/psylaw.2016060110

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Dvoryanchikov N.V., Makarova T.E., Yushina N.N. Perception features of the sexual preference object in persons with pedophilia depending on the attitude to sexual desire [Elektronnyi resurs]. Psikhologiia i pravo = Psychology and Law, 2016. Vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 120–131. doi:10.17759/psylaw.2016060110. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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