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Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental PhilosophyAre Paraphilias Mental Disorders? The Case of the DSM

Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental Philosophy: Are Paraphilias Mental... [Are sexual perversions or paraphilias mental disorders? I attempt to answer this question by scrutinizing the presentation and discussion of unusual sexual behaviors and desires in the consecutive editions of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, from its very first edition in 1952 up until the freshly printed DSM-5. My main conclusion is that due to the manual’s messy definition of mental disorder, advocates of the DSM cannot convincingly claim that paraphilias are mental disorders.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental PhilosophyAre Paraphilias Mental Disorders? The Case of the DSM

Part of the Philosophy and Medicine Book Series (volume 120)
Editors: Meacham, Darian
Adriaens, Pieter R.
Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental Philosophy — May 23, 2015
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Springer Netherlands
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© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
ISBN
978-94-017-9869-3
Pages
159 –178
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10.1007/978-94-017-9870-9_10
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Abstract

[Are sexual perversions or paraphilias mental disorders? I attempt to answer this question by scrutinizing the presentation and discussion of unusual sexual behaviors and desires in the consecutive editions of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, from its very first edition in 1952 up until the freshly printed DSM-5. My main conclusion is that due to the manual’s messy definition of mental disorder, advocates of the DSM cannot convincingly claim that paraphilias are mental disorders.]

Published: May 23, 2015

Keywords: Mental Disorder; Sexual Deviation; Sexual Arousal; Sexual Deviance; Paraphilic Disorder

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