pedophilic disorder

English

Noun

pedophilic disorder (uncountable)

2. (psychiatry) An American Psychiatric Association clinical diagnostic classification of pedophilia, APA defines it as intense sexual fantasies about and attraction to prepubescent children by a person of 16 years or older for a period of 6 months or more. [from 2013]
   • 2014 June, Michael B. First, “DSM-5 and paraphilic disorders”, in The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law‎^[1], volume 42, number 2, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, →ISSN, →PMID:

     The behavioral expression of pedophilic disorder often involves nonconsenting victims, since prepubescent children cannot legally give consent to sexual activity. However, the diagnostic criteria for pedophilic disorder have retained their DSM-IV-TR wording and thus differ from the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for the other paraphilic disorders involving nonconsenting victims.

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Synonyms

• (psychiatry): pedophilia (“an outmoded clinical diagnostic classification”) (American Psychiatric Association)
• (epidemiology, psychiatry): pedophilia (“a clinical diagnostic classification”) (World Health Organization)

Hypernyms

• (psychiatry): paraphilic disorder (“a clinical diagnostic classification”) (American Psychiatric Association)

References

• "Paraphilic Disorders" in American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-5, fifth edition. Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Association, 2013, →ISBN.