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Pedophilia: Etiologic models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

A. Moutinho ,
G. Jorge  and
A.V. Pereira
A. Moutinho
Affiliation:
Psychiatry, Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
G. Jorge
Affiliation:
Anesthesiology, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Central, Lisbon, Portugal
A.V. Pereira
Affiliation:
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Central, Lisbon, Portugal

Abstract

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Pedophilia is defined as a recurrent sexual attraction towards pre-pubescent children. It is a serious and ubiquitous problem with clinical, social, moral and legal implications.

The aim of this poster is to describe the factors that are most often associated with this paraphilia and to analyse some of the proposed etiological theories. In the past, etiological theories gave more importance to environmental factors, but recent studies have emphasized more and more the importance of neurobiological factors.

Even though several factors have been identified, there are very few certainties when it comes to their role in the etiology of this disease and most of the proposed theories have a speculative nature.

Type
P03-381
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 26 , Issue S2: Abstracts of the 19th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2011 , pp. 1551
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2011
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