2010 issue 3-4

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Volume 26, issue 3-4

Review article

Current methods of treatment of pedophilia

Dominika Berent1, Andrzej Depko2, Monika Talarowska1, Antoni Florkowski1, Tomasz Śliwiński1
1. Klinika Psychiatrii Dorosłych Uniwersytetu Medycznego w Łodzi
2. Poradnia Seksuologiczna Specjalistycznej Przychodni Lekarskiej dla Pracowników Wojska
Farmakoterapia w Psychiatrii i Neurologii, 2010, 3-4, 165–172
Keywords: pedophilia, methods of treatment

Abstract

This is to summarize knowledge about currently used methods of treatment of pedophilia. It comes mainly from studies enrolling groups of sex offenders, non-comparable according to the structure of paraphilia across the studies. Moreover, the assessment of treatment efficacy predominantly relies on selfreporting of changes in intensity of deviant sexual fantasies and behaviours, which seems to make the reliability of such a method questionable. Here shown methods of treatment are: surgical castration, pharmacological treatment and psychotherapy. Presented hormonal pharmacological treatment contains: medroxyprogesterone acetate, cyproterone acetate, gonadorelin analogues; non-hormonal: selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, topiramate, naltrexone.

Address for correspondence:
Dominika Berent
Klinika Psychiatrii Dorosłych
Uniwersytet Medyczny w Łodzi
ul. Aleksandrowska 159, 91-229 Łódź
tel. 42 652 94 01 wew. 343, 430, fax 42 640 50 58
adres e-mail: dominikaberent@poczta.fm