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Erotic Target Location Errors in Male Gender Dysphorics, Paedophiles, and Fetishists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Kurt Freund  and
Ray Blanchard
Kurt Freund*
Affiliation:
Research Section of Behavioural Sexology, Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, 250 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5T 1R8
Ray Blanchard
Affiliation:
Gender Identity Clinic and Forensic Service, Clarke Institute of Psychiatry
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

A clinical series of male paedophiles who dressed or fantasised themselves as children suggests that certain paraphilias represent developmental errors in locating erotic targets in the environment and that proneness to such errors is a paraphilic dimension in its own right, apart from the specific nature of the erotic target.

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Brief Reports
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 162 , Issue 4 , April 1993 , pp. 558 - 563
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1993 

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