Pansexuality (psychiatry)

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According to Otto F. Kernberg , pansexuality is a diagnostic symptom of borderline personality disorder in psychiatry .

features

In this context, pan-sexuality is characterized by the “simultaneous existence of several perverse traits” or by a total inhibition in actual sexual behavior and the use of several perverse fantasies for self-gratification .

Further meaning

In neurology, the term is also used for an existing sexual interest that is also directed towards animals and objects . You can, for example, after bilateral anterior temporal lobe - lesion ( Kluver-Bucy syndrome arise).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brigitte Vetter: Psychiatry . A systematic textbook. 7th edition. Schattauer , Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-7945-2566-9 , pp. 129 ( Google Books [accessed December 3, 2011]).
  2. D. Vodušek: Sexual dysfunction from a neurological point of view. In: Clinical Neurophysiology. 42, 2011, pp. 117-122, doi : 10.1055 / s-0031-1275651 .
  3. D. Vodušek: Sexual disorders from the point of view of the neurologist. In: The neurologist. 82, 2011, pp. 787-802, doi : 10.1007 / s00115-010-3199-x .