Defense Styles of Pedophilic Offenders
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 52, No. 2, 185-195 (2008)
http://ijo.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/52/2/185?rss=1
Martin Drapeau ; Véronique Beretta ; Yves de Roten ; Annett Koerner ; Jean-Nicolas Despland
"This pilot study investigated the defence styles of paedophile sexual offenders. Results showed that paedophiles had a significantly lower overall defensive functioning score than the controls. Paedophiles used significantly fewer obsessional level defences but more major image-distorting and action-level defences. Results also suggested differences in the prevalence of individual defences where paedophiles used more dissociation, displacement, denial, autistic fantasy, splitting of object, projective identification, acting out, and passive aggressive behaviour but less intellectualisation and rationalisation."
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