Is pedophilia a mental disorder?

Archives of Sexual Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 467-471

  Green, Richard ^a,b  

^a CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULTHOOD; CULTURAL FACTOR; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTROVERSION; MENTAL DISEASE; MORALITY; NEUROSIS; NONHUMAN; PEDOPHILIA; PENIS ERECTION; PERSONALITY; PRIMATE; PROSTITUTION; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOSIS; PUBERTY; REVIEW; SELF ESTEEM; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL CRIME; SEXUAL DEVIATION; SEXUALITY; SOCIOPATHY; THOUGHT DISORDER; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; MALE; MASTURBATION;

ADULT; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MASTURBATION; MENTAL DISORDERS; PEDOPHILIA;

EID: 1842502869     PISSN: 00040002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020699013309     Document Type: Review

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