Assessment, Psychosexual Profiling, and Treatment of Exhibitionists (from Sex Offender Treatment: Biological Dysfunction, Intrapsychic Conflict, Interpersonal Violence, P 103-123, 1996, Eli Coleman, S. Margretta Dwyer, et al., eds. - See NCJ-174052)

• NCJ Number: 174058
• Author(s): B R S Rosser; S M Dwyer
• Date Published: 1996
• Length: 21 pages
• Sale Source: Haworth Press, Inc
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This study reports on the assessment, psychosexual profiling and treatment of exhibitionists.

Abstract

The study investigated demographic and psychosexual profiles of 72 male exposers who presented for assessment or treatment at a midwestern university sexual health clinic. Collation of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory scores revealed that exposers had higher levels of psychopathology and sexual/gender nonconformity than other men, and showed indications of thought disorder and depression. Mean Tennessee Self-Concept Scale scores depicted exposers as less integrated and more internally conflicted. On the Derogatis Sexual Functioning Inventory, exposers reported average sexual satisfaction but a greater number of sexually related symptoms. The study identified differences between single and married exposers, between court referrals and volunteers, and between those with single and multiple diagnoses. The study proposes a psychosexual construct underlying exposing behavior, with the possibility of subcategories. Tables, figures, references, notes