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In recent years there have been a variety of approaches to the treatment of sexual perversions. Generally, these approaches can be divided into five main categories: psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, relapse prevention, organic, and family systems. The psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral orientations have largely dominated treatment, inasmuch as both of these approaches purport to treat the full spectrum of paraphiliac disorders. Relapse prevention techniques, which are being used increasingly in specialized treatment programs for sex offenders, can be initiated at the very onset of the treatment encounter.1 The organic and family systems approaches are somewhat delimited in that each of these perspectives treats a narrower range of deviant sexual disorders. For example, the organic approach, which until recently was confined to the administration of medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA, Depo-Provera),2 is used for the seriously acting out and potentially dangerous patient for whom immediate control measures are indicated. The family systems approach has been mostly limited to the advanced stages of the treatment of some incest cases (intrafamilial pedophilia).3
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Travin, S., Protter, B. (1993). The Treatment of Sexual Perversion. In: Sexual Perversion. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1233-6_9
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