Citation

Briken P, Bourget D, Dufour M. Psychiatr. Clin. North Am. 2014; 37(2): 215-230.

Affiliation

Forensic Program, Department of Psychiatry, The Royal Ottawa Hospital, University of Ottawa, 1145 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K1Z 7K4, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.psc.2014.03.003

PMID

24877708

Abstract

This article gives a clinically oriented overview of forensically relevant forms of sexual sadism disorder and its specific relationship to sexual homicide. In sexual homicide perpetrators, peculiar patterns of sexual sadism may be a motivational pathway to kill. Sexual sadism increases the risk for reoffending in sexual offenders. Through psychotherapy and pharmacological interventions, treatment of sadistic sex offenders has to consider special characteristics that may be different from those of nonsadistic sex offenders. Many of these offenders share a combination of sexual sadistic motives and an intact self-regulation, sometimes combined with a high level of sexual preoccupation.

Language: en