Abnormal Psychology

Gender and Sexual Disorders 479 with gender identity disorder, however, do not have as high an activity level as their counterpa ...

480 CHAPTER 11 Given how little is known about the neurological, psychological, and social fac- tors that contribute to gender i ...

Gender and Sexual Disorders 481 full-time as the other sex, the clinician helps them discover whether doing so feels more consis ...

482 CHAPTER 11 Paraphilias One of the reasons that Mike was so disturbed about Sam’s transformation into Sandy was that it remin ...

Gender and Sexual Disorders 483 that involve objects or consenting adults. Paraphilic disorders are almost exclusively diagnosed ...

484 CHAPTER 11 among men, in this section we use the masculine pronouns (e.g., him) when discuss- ing patients with these disord ...

Gender and Sexual Disorders 485 Voyeurism: Watching Others Voyeurism is the paraphilia characterized by sexual fantasies, urges, ...

486 CHAPTER 11 Pedophilia: Sexually Abusing Children Child sexual abuse is a crime, but the DSM-IV-TR diagnosis for those who fa ...

Gender and Sexual Disorders 487 Any type of rape is a criminal act; sadistic rape—while criminal—is also a type of sexual sadism ...

488 CHAPTER 11 Fetishism: Sexually Arousing Objects Fetishism is the paraphilia characterized by the repeated use of nonliving o ...

Gender and Sexual Disorders 489 were surveyed reported that they had appeared in public while dressed as women. Almost two third ...

490 CHAPTER 11 Self-reports of arousal (psychological factor) are also used to assess paraphilic disorders: Men describe what th ...

Gender and Sexual Disorders 491 Understanding Paraphilias Researchers are only just beginning to learn why paraphilias emerge an ...

492 CHAPTER 11 Classical conditioning may be amplifi ed by the Zeigarnik effect (Deutsch, 1968), which makes people more likely ...

Gender and Sexual Disorders 493 methods, such as extinction, are designed to decrease sexual arousal to paraphilic stimuli while ...

494 CHAPTER 11 Sexual Dysfunctions Let’s return to Laura and Mike, the married couple whose relationship—and sex life—had become ...

Gender and Sexual Disorders 495 3.Orgasm. The arousal triggers involuntary contractions of internal genital or- gans, followed b ...

496 CHAPTER 11 Sexual Dysfunctions According to DSM-IV-TR The DSM-IV-TR categories of disorders of sexual dysfunction were partl ...

Gender and Sexual Disorders 497 (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). This means that someone may have a problem with any as ...

498 CHAPTER 11 in Case 11.8. In addition, as women age, decreased desire is probably related to women’s hormonal shift with meno ...