by Renzo Di Cori, Nadia Fedeli, Ugo Sabatello
The Juvenile Sexual Offending is a disturbing phenomenon in which sometimes victim and abuser are confused. Very often the abuser himself is a victim of traumas that can change the development pushing him in a compulsory repetition.
In this paper clinical and experimental data are integrated for a attempt to identify the multiple etiology of sexual offending. In the history of these adolescents we can often find a lot of different traumatisation with an impairment of symbolic capacity. This impairment leaves an emptiness of representation which leads to acting out.
Psicologo, psicoterapeuta, Docente del Master “Psichiatria forense dell’età evolutiva” (“Sapienza” Università di Roma) - email: renzodicori(at)libero.it
Neuropsichiatra Infantile, psicoterapeuta, Docente del Master “Psichiatria forense dell’età evolutiva” (“Sapienza” Università di Roma)- email: nfedeli(at)libero.it
Neuropsichiatra Infantile, Psicoanalista AIPsi-IPA, Dipartimento di Pediatria e Neuropsichiatria Infantile, “Sapienza” Università di Roma, Direttore del Master “Psichiatria forense dell’età evolutiva” (“Sapienza” Università di Roma) - email: sabatello.ugo(at)gmail.com
From: Rassegna Italiana di Criminologia n° 4/2012