Are sex offenders treatable? A research overview

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 349-361

  Grossman, Linda S ^a   Martis, Brian ^a   Fichtner, Christopher G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIANDROGEN; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CYPROTERONE ACETATE; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ESTROGEN DERIVATIVE; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; LITHIUM; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; TRIPTORELIN;

ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; AVERSION THERAPY; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CASTRATION; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG MECHANISM; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MASS SCREENING; NEUROSURGERY; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PSYCHOSIS; RECIDIVISM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL CRIME; SEXUAL DEVIATION; TARDIVE DYSKINESIA; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033030821     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ps.50.3.349     Document Type: Article

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