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Clinical Theory and Skills EMIs
Published in Michael Reilly, Bangaru Raju, Extended Matching Items for the MRCPsych Part 1, 2018
Exhibitionism.Fetishism.Frotteurism.Necrophilia.Paedophilia.Partialism.Polymorphously perverse.Public masturbation.Sadomasochism.Transvestism.Voyeurism.Zoophilia.
Peruvian psychiatry in America and the world: its journey in search of an identity
Published in International Review of Psychiatry, 2020
Renato D. Alarcón, Eduardo Gastelumendi, Alfonso Mendoza
As an ‘integrator’, Seguín (1964, 1972) largely contributed to the notion of an autonomous, unique Latin American psychiatric conception and practice. His ‘favorite idea’ was what he called ‘therapeutic eros’ (Seguín, 1963; Silva Tuesta, 1979), a concept that encompassed the essentials of his treatment approach, ‘that owed a lot to all the other psychotherapeutic schools without being a slave of any of them’ (Alarcón, 1990). His interest in psychosomatic medicine was an example of integration of mind and body, as the practice of individual, group and family therapies reflected his views about social integration. The inclusion of other dimensions of the human being took him to study the history and development of original Peruvian cultures, their notions about health and illness, and the varieties of treatments (Seguín, 1979). His research findings allowed him not only to make decisive contributions to a new regional nosography, but also to consider the diversity of beliefs, techniques and modalities of management, including botanical practices (Seguín and Mariátegui, 1975). By integrating popular, traditional and academic approaches, he is without a doubt, the creator of Folkloric Psychiatry in Latin America and a world leader in the broader field of Ethnopsychiatry. And, through his pioneering research and courageous pronouncements about the need to have a regional conception and a regional identity for Latin American psychiatry, was a genuine fighting voice of decolonisation: he maintained that ‘exclusivisms or partialisms do not exist in Latin America […]. To understand and investigate on the characteristics that can distinguish the Latin American in general, or the Peruvian in particular from other types of peoples and other ways to look at life in this world, that, I think, is the first and foremost anthropological basis of a fundamental Latin American psychiatry…’ (Alarcón, 1990).
A Brief Report on Fetishism in Romania: An Approach Based on Gender and Sexual Orientation
Published in International Journal of Sexual Health, 2022
Florin Gabriel Berariu, Mihaela Jitaru, Octav Sorin Candel
With this study, we explored the levels of fetishism in a previously untested population. However, there are a number of limitations that must be taken into account. Firstly, the scale we used to measure fetishism is relatively old and does not completely reflect more modern views on this topic (for example, it does not include partialism as a form of fetishism, as it is defined by DSM-5). Also, we used online and self-reported methodology. By doing this, some of this research was more susceptible to response bias. By conducting this research online, we did not reach those participants who might not use social media or live in areas with no Internet connection. In addition, we must acknowledge that given the subject of this research, some of the participants might not have responded sincerely to the questionnaire, especially to the questions regarding fetishes, due to the stigma that can be associated with sexual fetishistic interests. Thus, our sample, although large, cannot be considered representative. Secondly, sexual orientation was treated as a trichotomous construct. Given that sexual orientation can be more fluid and it can be subdivided into other discrete orientations (Moser & Kleinplatz, 2020), future studies could take these different definitions and views into account. Finally, the sample was unbalanced in the representations of gender and sexual orientation. This was especially apparent in the heterosexual and bisexual sub-samples. Again, this limitation does not allow us to generalize the results. Moreover, self-selection and the study’s promotion could have influenced, at least partially, the results. People interested in fetishism would be more likely to participate in a study on fetish and this could provide an alternative explanation for the high prevalence of fetishism in this sample. Future studies should also use larger sub-samples for each gender and sexual orientation to further explore the associations that were medium in size but still non-significant in our study.