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Current Psychiatry Reviews

Editor-in-Chief

ISSN (Print): 1573-4005
ISSN (Online): 1875-6441

The Risk That DSM 5 Will Exacerbate the SVP Mess in Forensic Psychiatry

Author(s): Allen Frances

Volume 8, Issue 4, 2012

Page: [264 - 267] Pages: 4

DOI: 10.2174/157340012803520496

Price: $65

Abstract

The imprecise wording of DSM-IV led to an abusive use of the Paraphilia NOS diagnosis to hospitalize sexual predators for indefinite periods of time through Sexually Violent Predator statues. DSM-5 has threatened to compound the error of DSM-IV through the addition of three diagnosis that invite forensic abuse: ‘coercive paraphilia’, ‘hypersexuality’, and ‘hebephilia’. This article reviews that status of those three diagnoses, as well as the arguments for excluding them from the new manual.

Keywords: DSM-5, Paraphilias, Paraphilias in DSM-5, Sexually violent predator statutes, Paraphilic coercive disorder, Paraphilic coercive disorder in DSM-5, NOS diagnosis, predators, forensic abuse, hebephilia, egregious, idiosyncratic, forensic, incarceration


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