Effects of EMDR on previously abused child molesters: Theoretical reviews and preliminary findings from Ricci, Clayton, and Shapiro

Preliminary findings on using EMDR therapy to treat persistent deviant sexual interest in children from previously abused child molesters.

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Editorial. “Persistent deviant sexual interest in children is an important in-treatment predictor of sexual recidivism in child molesters, and deviant sexual arousal as part of sexual preference is known to be very difficult to alter. The present findings by Ricci, et al. (2006), if subsequently confirmed, are exciting and of great theoretical and practical interest to both forensic clinicians and the criminal justice system. Any such proposed method for the treatment of child molesters is liable to to create a renewed avalanche of interest in EMDR.”

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MacCulloch, M. (2007). Effects of EMDR on previously abused child molesters: Theoretical reviews and preliminary findings from Ricci, Clayton, and Shapiro. The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, 17(4), 531-537. https://doi.org/10.1080/14789940601075760