CARAS Webinar: The Evolution of Diagnostic Criteria for Sadism, Masochism, and Fetishism from the DSM-I to the DSM-5, with Focus on the Role of Consent; Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021
The Evolution of Diagnostic Criteria for Sadism, Masochism, and Fetishism from the DSM-I to the DSM-5, with Focus on the Role of Consent
CARAS Webinar
11 am Pacific / 2 pm Eastern / 7 pm London
Saturday, December 11, 2021; 90 minutes
Presenter: Katie Mercer, University of Colorado, Boulder
Abstract
This presentation will educate attendees on the changing role that consent has played as an explanatory tool in characterizing sexual sadism as a mental illness in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM) over its various editions. This presentation will also provide some context around the changing uses of consent within those definitions over time, to help explain why those changes happened. Through this, it becomes clear that its use has shifted in response to a complicated web of interrelated factors, including larger historical shifts such as the gay rights movement and activism around kink, changes in the psychiatric field with regards to how much explanation is expected for the diagnostic categories in the DSM, and specific critiques of the DSM’s definitions of the paraphilias.
Learning Objectives:
Describe the changing ways that consent has been used to define sexual sadism in the DSM over time.
Outline the historical context for changes in the diagnosis of sexual sadism.
Describe how consent has not been used as a factor in showing non-consensual sexual behavior to be indicative of mental disorder.
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