Possible use of psychological corrective measures for people with abnormal sexual preferences

Abstract

The paper studies the possibility of psychological corrective measures aimed at persons with abnormal sexual preferences. We reviewed domestic and foreign scientific publications described the treatment of sexual disorders and the basic directions of the therapy, and indicated its positive and negative aspects. We have studied progress notes and etiology of "personality disorders and behavior in adulthood" disease class, "disorders of sexual preference" disease subsection and analyzed the efficiency of the psychopharmacological treatment, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and psychotherapy for each violation of sexual preference. The most productive methods of therapeutic intervention are identified. This analysis allows making the most appropriate scheme of psychological correction and treatment for persons with abnormalities of sexual preference.

Keywords

• paraphilia
• psychopharmacological treatment
• cognitive-behavioral therapy
• psychotherapy
• fetishism
• fetishistic transvestism
• exhibitionism
• voyeurism
• pedophilia
• sadomasochism