Hebephilia and the construction of a fictitious diagnosis

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 200, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 492-494

  Good, Paul ^a   Burstein, Jules ^a  

^a WRIGHT INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

DSM 5; Hebephilia; pedophilia; sexual disorders

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ARTICLE; COURT; DSM-IV; EROTISM; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HEBEPHILIA; HUMAN; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PEDOPHILIA; PUNISHMENT; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL CRIME; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDERS; MALE; PARAPHILIAS; PEDOPHILIA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX OFFENSES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862162037     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e318257c4f1     Document Type: Article

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