Answer to Question #184140 in Psychology for Carissa Green

Question

If people with paraphilic disorders have powerful urges to engage in deviant behavior as a result of biological forces, or unconscious fears, can they be expected to control their behavior? Explain your answer.

Answer 1

Yes. People with paraphilic disorder can control their behaviours when they tempted to engage in deviant behavior.Currently a drug called antiandrogen that lower the testosterone level can be used to lower the sexual drive. Besides, assisted aversive conditioning can also be used in form of a foul odor sprayed in the air by the therapist of the patient . The patient associates the deviant behavior with a foul order and take measures to avoid the odor by avoiding the behavior. A person might also be connected to a plethysmographic biofeedback machine hooked with light. The patient is taught to keep the light within a specific range of color when exposed to sexually stimulating objects.