Psychology 2075 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Sexual Sadism Disorder, American Psychiatric Association, Sexual Fetishism

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: Taylor Kohut

Document Summary

The normal-abnormal continuum: range of what is normal to abnormal, ex. Sexual addictions and compulsions: theory that some sexual variations are a result of an addictive process much like alcoholism, the person has a pathological relationship to a sexual event or process, differences from chemical additions, no withdrawal symptoms. Fetishism: characterized by sexual fantasies, urges or behaviours involving the use of nonliving objects to produce or enhance sexual arousal with or in the absence of a partners. In extreme cases the person is incapable of becoming aroused and having an orgasm unless the fetish object is present. Media and form fetishes: media fetish: the material out of which the object is made is the source of arousal, ex. Leather fetish: can be subdivided into hard and soft media fetishes, hard media fetishes are associated with sadomasochism, form fetish: the object and is shape are important, ex. Why do people develop a fetish: not sure what causes, 3 theoretical explanations.