How To Understand And Accompany The Perverted Child?

Whatever his age, the perverted individual worries as much as he fascinates. The healthy or pathological meaning of child sexual behaviour is not always evident. As adults and clinicians, we have difficulty recognizing the existence of a sexual problem in children. However, it can develop a disturbing sexuality in the form of sexual perversion. After a reminder of general considerations on the topic, the article proposes to consider the establishment of a sexual perversion in the child. As in most syndromes and clinical entities, there is a combination of intrinsic and other factors, external, contextual and even societal. Afterwards, we approach the management by proposing a flexible systematization in the evaluative process allowing both to respect the temporality of a necessary elaboration and to take the time to reflect in terms of differential diagnosis in order to propose relevant therapeutic axes. (C) 2020 Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.