Abstract

CALZADA REYES, A.; ACOSTA YMAS, Y.; ACOSTA GONZALEZ, M.  and  GOMEZ SANCHEZ, V.. Diagnostic analysis of Sexual Preference disorder (Pedophilia): A case report. Cuad. med. forense [online]. 2012, vol.18, n.3-4, pp.127-133. ISSN 1988-611X.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S1135-76062012000300006.

Pedophilia is a complex psychiatric disorder of high public concern, clinically defined as intense and repeated sexually arousing fantasies, urges, or behaviours involving sexual activity with children, typically less than 13 years. A 45-year old man, single, with criminal record, which is caught by the mother of a child, when he placed his erect penis in the buttock of the child. Results of electrophysiological and psychophysiological studies and a summary of psychiatric assessment are exposed. It is recommended to link these studies to the forensic clinical assessment, to increase the objectivity of diagnoses issued by experts.

Keywords : Pedophilia; Sympathetic skin response; EEG.

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