The management of sex offenders: Perspectives for psychiatry

Harvard Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 359-368

  Saleh, Fabian M ^a,b   Grudzinskas Jr , Albert J ^c   Malin, H Martin ^e   Dwyer, R Gregg ^d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality   (United States)

Author keywords

paraphilias; risk management; sex offender; sexual predator laws

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIANDROGEN; BUSPIRONE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOMIPRAMINE; CYPROTERONE; CYPROTERONE ACETATE; DESIPRAMINE; FLUPHENAZINE; FLUTAMIDE; GONADOTROPIN ANTAGONIST; GOSERELIN; HALOPERIDOL; HORMONE; IMIPRAMINE; LEUPRORELIN; LITHIUM; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; MOOD STABILIZER; NALTREXONE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; THIORIDAZINE; TOPIRAMATE; TRIPTORELIN;

ABLATION THERAPY; ADD ON THERAPY; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CASTRATION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DESENSITIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; EXHIBITIONISM; FETISHISM; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LIBIDO DISORDER; MALADJUSTMENT; MASOCHISM; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL DISEASE; PATIENT SAFETY; PEDOPHILIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RAPE; RECIDIVISM; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SADISM; SATIETY; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL CRIME; SEXUAL DEVIATION; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EXPERT TESTIMONY; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PARAPHILIAS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEX OFFENSES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78649254520     PISSN: 10673229     EISSN: 14657309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10673229.2010.533003     Document Type: Review

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