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Author(s) -

Zack Z. Cernovsky,

Y Bureau

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

mental illness

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.239

H-Index - 10

eISSN - 2036-7465

pISSN - 2036-7457

DOI - 10.4081/mi.2016.6687

Subject(s) - psychology , parallels , preference , insecure attachment , suicidal ideation , postpartum depression , developmental psychology , depression (economics) , clinical psychology , medicine , attachment theory , suicide prevention , poison control , pregnancy , medical emergency , mechanical engineering , macroeconomics , biology , engineering , economics , genetics , microeconomics

A patient in her 20s was referred to us for psychological assessment due to her depression and suicide attempts. She mentioned being anorgasmic except when diapered and emphasized her erotic preference for diapers. Her childhood included maternal deprivation in an impecunious family headed by an irritable physically disabled father on social assistance. Given the maternal deprivation in childhood, her erotic fixation on diapers parallels the emotional attachment to diapers observed by Harlow in mother deprived infant monkeys. Etiological hypotheses should also include the paradigm of avoidance learning from theories of behavior therapy. Our patient does not wish to change her sexual preference: in such cases, fetishism is not considered as an illness by DSM5. However, she needs to be treated for pathological levels of depression with suicidal ideation and low self-esteem

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