Pedophilia, Minor-Attracted Persons, and the DSM: Issues and Controversies
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Baltimore, MD
This page provides a selection of references that may be helpful to people who want to delve deeper into the issues and controversies of minor-attracted persons, pedophilia, and the DSM.
Current Editions
“Pedophilia”, Section 302.2, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, American Psychiatric Association, 2000 (Fourth Edition, Text Revision) (DSM IV-TR)
“Paedophilia”, Section F65.4, International Classification of Diseases, World Health Organization (10th Revision) (ICD-10)
- Classification (Version for 2003)
- Clinical descriptions and diagnostic guidelines (undated)
- Diagnostic criteria for research (1993)
Revision Underway by the APA
DSM-5: The Future of Psychiatric Diagnosis, American Psychiatric Association
Paraphilias Subworkgroup, “U 03 Pedohebephilic Disorder,” American Psychiatric Association, October 14, 2010 (no longer available online)
Zucker, Kenneth J., “Reports from the DSM-V Work Group on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders,” Archives of Sexual Behavior, V 39, #2, 217-220, September 16, 2009
Kafka, Martin P., “Sexual Offender Assessment: DSM-5 proposals modifying diagnostic criteria for paraphilias and related disorders” at Conference of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, October 20, 2010
Blanchard, Ray, “The Fertility of Hebephiles and the Adaptationist Argument against Including Hebephilia in DSM-5,” Archives of Sexual Behavior, V 39, #4, 817-818, February 20, 2010
Blanchard, Ray, “The DSM Diagnostic Criteria for Pedophilia,” Archives of Sexual Behavior, September 16, 2009
Blanchard, Ray, “Reply to Letters Regarding Pedophilia, Hebephilia, and the DSM-V,” Archives of Sexual Behavior, V 38, #3, 331-334, June 2009
Blanchard, Ray, et al., “Pedophilia, Hebephilia, and the DSM-V,” Archives of Sexual Behavior, V 38, #3, 335-350, June 2009
While critics of the proposals abound, there have been fewer peer-reviewed papers supporting the proposed changes that were not written by members of the Paraphilias Subworkgroup themselves or by APA officials. We ask that anyone who knows of such a paper, please advise us so it can be listed here.
Seto, Michael C., “Child Pornography Use and Internet Solicitation in the Diagnosis of Pedophilia,” Archives of Sexual Behavior, V 39, #3, 591-593, February 25, 2010
Wollert, Richard and Cramer, Elliot, “Sampling Extreme Groups Invalidates Research on the Paraphilias: Implications for DSM-5 and Sex Offender Risk Assessments,” Behavioral Sciences and the Law, July 2011
- See also comments on this research by Allen Frances and by Karen Franklin.
Kinderman, Peter, et al., Response to the American Psychiatric Association: DSM-5 Development, British Psychological Society, June 2011
“Critical Appraisals of the Proposed DSM-5 Paraphilia Diagnoses,” Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, April 2011
- Introduction by Richard B. Krueger
- J. Paul Fedoroff, “Forensic and Diagnostic Concerns Arising From the Proposed DSM-5 Criteria for Sexual Paraphilic Disorder”
- Fred S. Berlin, “Commentary on Pedophilia Diagnostic Criteria in DSM-5”
- Howard Zonana, “Sexual Disorders: New and Expanded Proposals for the DSM-5—Do We Need Them?”
- Michael B. First, “The Inclusion of Child Pornography in the DSM-5 Diagnostic Criteria for Pedophilia: Conceptual and Practical Problems”
Frances, Allen and First, Michael, “Hebephilia Is Not a Mental Disorder in DSM-IV-TR and Should Not Become One in DSM-5,” Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 39:78-85, 2011
Moser, Charles, “Problems with Ascertainment,” Archives of Sexual Behavior, V 39, #6, 1225-1227, July 23, 2010
Green, Richard, “Sexual Preference for 14-Year-Olds as a Mental Disorder: You Can’t Be Serious!!,” Archives of Sexual Behavior, March 4, 2010
Hinderliter, Andrew C., “Defining Paraphilia: Excluding Exclusion,” Open Access Journal of Forensic Psychology, V 2, p 241-272, 2010
Kramer, Richard, “APA Guidelines Ignored in Development of Diagnostic Criteria for Pedohebephilia,” Archives of Sexual Behavior, V 40, #2, 233-235, October 30, 2010
DSM-5 Officials Hold Conference Call with B4U-ACT, B4U-ACT news release, June 12, 2010
B4U-ACT Representatives Attend APA Annual Meeting, B4U-ACT news release, May 27, 2010
B4U-ACT Urges DSM-V Paraphilias Subworkgroup to Participate in Meeting, B4U-ACT news release, March 1, 2010
Melsheimer, Michael; Kramer, Richard; and Andriette, William, Letter to DSM committee on the paraphilias, December 5, 2009
“Inside the Battle to Define Mental Illness,” Wired, December 27, 2010
“Revision to the bible of psychiatry, DSM, could introduce new mental disorders,” Washington Post, February 10, 2010
“Revising Book on Disorders of the Mind,” New York Times, February 10, 2010
“Revising the book on mental illness,” Los Angeles Times, February 10, 2010
“Psychiatry’s civil war,” New Scientist, December 11, 2009
Background on the series leading up to the DSM-5:
“The Dictionary of Disorder” by Alix Spiegel, New Yorker, January 3, 2005
The following are collections of references relevant to the DSM-5 proposals for the paraphilias.
Cantor, James M.:
- Clinical Sexology Reading List
- Peer-Reviewed Research Articles Providing Data on Hebephilia (1972–2010)
- 100 Texts that Include Hebephilia
Franklin, Karen, Hebephilia controversy
Hinderliter, Andrew C., DSM-5 Paraphilias Bibliography
