PSYCH 3AC3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Kleptomania, Psychopathology, Temporal Lobe
8 Dec 2015
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Fetishism etiology and treatment: a review from multiple. Fetishism, defined as the obligate need for inanimate or part objects for sexual arousal, may be viewed from multiple perspectives. Although psychoanalytic investigations offer much data to explain fetishism, behavioural treatments have been primarily reported as a treatment approach. Problems remain in understanding the natural clinical course, etiology, and best treatment for this paraphilia. The term fetish is derived for a portuguese feitico which literally means an object made both by art and skillfully conceived to symbolize a larger object . Although normal fantasis include a variety of sexual scenarios, fetishism is operationally defined as the repeated, preferred, or exclusive method of achieving sexual excitement via the use of nonliving objects or part objects. Explained such behaviours as the outcome of a learned occurrence in constitutionally vulnerable individuals. Gebhart fetishism is a graded phenomenon due to the ubiquity of fetishistic fantasies and behaviours.
