Medicalcortexabout 7 years ago

Necrophilia, also called thanatophilia, is a sexual attraction or sexual act involving corpses.. Rosman and Resnick (1989) reviewed information from 34 cases of necrophilia describing the individuals' motivations for their behaviors: these individuals reported the desire to possess a non-resisting and non-rejecting partner (68%), reunions with a romantic partner (21%), sexual attraction to corpses (15%), comfort or overcoming feelings of isolation (15%), or seeking self-esteem by expressing power over a homicide victim (12%). The researchers theorized that either of the following situations could be antecedents to necrophilia: The necrophile develops poor self-esteem, perhaps due in part to a significant loss;(a) They are very fearful of rejection by others and they desire a sexual partner who is incapable of rejecting them; and/or(b) They are fearful of the dead, and transform their fear — by means of reaction formation — into a desire.They develop an exciting fantasy of sex with a corpse, sometimes after exposure to a corpse. Rosman and Resnick (1989) reported that, of their sample of genuine necrophiles: 68% were motivated by a desire for an unresisting and unrejecting partner;21% by a want for reunion with a lost partner;15% by sexual attraction to dead people;15% by a desire for comfort or to overcome feelings of isolation; and12% by a desire to remedy low self-esteem by expressing power over a corpse. #medstudent #neurology #neuroscience #brain #psychiatry #doctor #nurse #medicalschool #medicalstudent #nursing #psychosis #mentalillness #asylum #necrophilia