Retrospective self-reports of childhood accidents causing unconsciousness in phallometrically diagnosed pedophiles

Archives of Sexual Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 511-526

  Blanchard, Ray ^a,b   Christensen, Bruce K ^a,b   Strong, Scott M ^a   Cantor, James M ^a   Kuban, Michael E ^a   Klassen, Philip ^a,b   Dickey, Robert ^a,b   Blak, Thomas ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Childhood accidents; Head injury; Neuropsychology; Pedophilia; Phallometry; Sex offenders

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ACCIDENT PRONENESS; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATION; EROTISM; HEAD INJURY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PEDOPHILIA; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SEXOLOGY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; ADULT; CHILD; DECISION MAKING; EGO DEVELOPMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; PENIS ERECTION; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; CHILD; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; HUMANS; MALE; PEDOPHILIA; PENILE ERECTION; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0036886397     PISSN: 00040002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020659331965     Document Type: Article

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