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Psychodynamic Perspectives of Sexual Perversion

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In general, psychodynamic conceptualizations of sexual perversions have mirrored the periodic revisions and the major developments in psychoanalytic views over the past century. These developments can be understood as a progression from the earliest psychoanalytic paradigms—drive or instinctual—to more contemporary concerns with object-relational, interpersonal, and self psychological theory. Whereas earlier psychoanalysts focused on the primary dynamics of the Oedipal complex and accompanying castration anxiety, recent theorists concentrate on preoedipal concerns centering on separation anxiety and associated factors, such as early gender role, the rudimentary formation of the self, the significance of specific early traumatogenic events, and attachment and relational motifs.

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  1. Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, New York, New York, USA

    Sheldon Travin M.D.

  2. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

    Sheldon Travin M.D.

  3. William Alanson White Institute of Psychoanalysis, New York, New York, USA

    Barry Protter Ph.D.

  4. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

    Barry Protter Ph.D.

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Travin, S., Protter, B. (1993). Psychodynamic Perspectives of Sexual Perversion. In: Sexual Perversion. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1233-6_7

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