If a Person Has a Paraphilic Disorder but Does Not

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Essay

If a person has a paraphilic disorder but does not act on it, is it a diagnosable mental disorder? Why or why not?

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Definitions:

Basic Anxiety

Anxiety created when a child is born into the bigger and more powerful world of older children and adults.

Personality Disturbances

Disruptions or dysfunctions in an individual's personality traits that significantly impede their social or occupational functioning.

Collective Unconscious

A concept in psychology proposed by Carl Jung, referring to the part of the unconscious mind that is inherited and common to all members of a species.

Freud's Unconscious

A key concept in Freudian psychology, referring to the part of the mind that contains desires, impulses, and memories of which individuals are not consciously aware.