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A small bibliography


Barlow D.H. : The treatment of sexual deviation. In: Calhoun1974.

review:
Treatment is aimed at conversion and at enlarging the pedophile's heterosocial and heterosexual skills (...). There is little empirical evidence, however, indicating exactly what skills are deficient. (Zessen 1990, p.190)


Calhoun K.S. Adams H.E., Mitchell K.M.(eds.): Innovative Treatment Methods in Psychopathology. New York: Wiley, 1974.
Coleman E. (ed.): Psychotherapy with homosexual men and women. New York, London: The Harworth Press, 1987.
Cook M. Howells K.(eds.): Adult Sexual Interest in Children. London: Academic Press, 1981.
Cook M. Wilson G.(eds.): Love and Attraction. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1979.
Crawford D.A. Allen J.V.: A social skill training program with sex offenders. In: Cook1979.

review:
Treatment is aimed at conversion and at enlarging the pedophile's heterosocial and heterosexual skills. (Zessen 1990, p.190)


Crawford D.A. : Treatment approaches with pedophiles. In: Cook1981.

review:
In an overview of treatmen programs, Crawfort concludes that ... psychoanalysis and individual (insight-oriented) psychotherapy, not used in conjunction with other forms of psychotherapy, are of little value in the treatment of pedophiles. (Zessen 1990, p.190)


Hayes S.C. Brownell K.G., Barlow D.H.: Heterosexual skills training and covert sensitization in sexual deviants. Behavior Research and Therapy 21,: 383-392, 1983.

review:
Treatment is aimed at conversion and at enlarging the pedophile's heterosocial and heterosexual skills. (Zessen 1990, p.190)


Herman S.H. Prewett M.: An experimental analysis of feedback to increase arousal in a case of homo- and heterosexual impotence. Journal of Behavioral Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 5,: 271-274, 1974.

review:
It is considered crucial for therapeutic success to teach sufficient social skills to implement new arousal. (Zessen 1990, p.190)


Howells K. : Some meanings of children for pedophiles. In: Cook1979.
James E.C. : Treatment of Homosexuality: A Reanalysis and Synthesis of Outcome Studies. Brigham: Young University, 1978.

review:
In an overview of the literature concerning homosexual conversion therapies, James concluded that the majority of studies were unsuccessful in changing sexual orientation. (Zessen 1990, p.191)


Masters W.H. Johnson V.E.: Homosexuality in Perspective. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1979.

review:
report a few successful conversions with male homosexuals. They suggest that (homosexual) conversion may be possible when the client is relatively young, strongly motivated, and not exclusively attracted to men. (Zessen 1990, p.191)


Naerssen A. van : Man-Boy Lovers: Assessment, Counseling and Psychotherapy. Journal of Homosexuality 20,1/2: 175-187, 1990.

review:
Clinical experiences with 36 males. All of them felt an enduring sexual attraction for boys. (summary)


Quinsey V.L. Steinman C.M., Bergerson S.G., Holmes T.F.: Penile circumference, skin conductance and ranking responses of child molesters and 'normals' to sexual and non-sexual visual stimuli. Behavior Therapy 6,: 213-219, 1975.

review:
The attraction to children is viewed as purely sexual. In its simplest form, the child is the stimulus that elicits sexual excitement in the adult. All other motivations and meanings of pedophile attraction are ignored. (Zessen 1990, p.190)


Quinsey V.L. Bergerson S.G., Steinman C.M.: Changes in physiological and verbal responses of child molesters during aversion therapy. Canadian Journal of Behavioral Sciences 8,: 202-212, 1976.

review:
The early behavioral approaches were aimed at reducing the deviant sexual arousal by aversion therapy (Zessen 1990, p.190)


Segal Z.V. Marshall W.L.: Heterosexual social skills in a population of rapists and child molesters. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 53,: 55-63, 1985.

review:
Treatment is aimed at conversion and at enlarging the pedophile's heterosocial and heterosexual skills. (Zessen 1990, p.190)


Stürup G.K. : Treatment of Sexual Offenders in Herstedvester, Denmark. Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1968.

review:
Irreversible interventions, such as castration, seem to be effective from a criminological point of view; Stürup reports a recidivism rate of 2.2% on a total of 3,186 sex offenders. (Zessen 1990, p.190)


Travin S. Bluestone H., Coleman E., Cullen K., Melella J.: Pedophilia: An update on theory and practice. Psychiatric Quarterly 57,: 89-103, 1985.

review:
Treatment is aimed at conversion and at enlarging the pedophile's heterosocial and heterosexual skills. (Zessen 1990, p.190)


Zessen G. van : A Model for Group Counceling with Male Pedophiles. Journal of Homosexuality 20,1/2: 189-198, 1990.

review:
Counseling is based on the notion that the emotional, erotic and sexual attraction to boys per se does not need to be legitimized or modified. The attraction, however, can be a source of psychological and social problems that can be handled by using a social support system. (summary)