Additional changes in DSM-5 include a rethinking of paraphilic disorders. While their diagnostic criteria remain unchanged from DSM-IV, the updated manual distinguishes between paraphilic behaviors, ...

Sexual masochism disorder is a paraphilic disorder, which involves recurrent, intense, sexually arousing fantasies, urges, or behaviors that are distressing or disabling and have the potential to ...

Yesterday, the American Psychological Association released a set of proposed revisions to its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder, the document that sets guidelines for psychiatric ...

Though a topic of debate in the medical community, the classification of a sex offender as suffering from an "unspecified paraphilic disorder" has been generally accepted among psychiatric experts and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — People with congestive heart failure, undergoing treatment for schizophrenia or who have a history of paraphilic disorders will no longer be eligible for a medical waiver to serve in ...