The Relationship Between and Correlates of Problematic Sexual Behavior and Major Mental Illness.

forensic mental illness psychosis sexual abuse sexual offending

Journal

Frontiers in psychology
ISSN: 1664-1078
Titre abrégé: Front Psychol
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101550902

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2021
Historique:
received: 01 06 2021
accepted: 07 12 2021
entrez: 21 1 2022
pubmed: 22 1 2022
medline: 22 1 2022
Statut: epublish

Résumé

While research has consistently found that general distress and psychopathology are not predictive of sexual recidivism, examination of specific syndromes and their relationship to offending has revealed a potentially more complicated relationship. One proposed mechanism for the mixed findings with respect to major mental illness and sexual offending may be the confound of neurological injury. As identified in Mann et al. (2010) work on psychologically meaningful risk factors, mental illness represents an area in need of more study given the indirect influence it may exert on risk. To this end, the current paper summarizes the study of the relationship between neurological injury, psychosis and problematic sexual behavior among two Canadian samples of forensic and civil psychiatric patients. In the first study we observed higher than expected rates of sexually-themed psychotic symptoms (45%) and problematic sexual behavior (PSB; 40%) among a combined group of forensic and civil psychiatric patients (

Identifiants

pubmed: 35058832
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.719082
pmc: PMC8763858
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

719082

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2022 Moulden, Myers, Lori and Chaimowitz.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Auteurs

Heather M Moulden (HM)

Forensic Psychiatry Program, St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.

Casey Myers (C)

Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behavior, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.

Anastasia Lori (A)

Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behavior, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.

Gary Chaimowitz (G)

Forensic Psychiatry Program, St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.

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