title: Understanding the rapist's mind.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The motivations and psychology of the rapist.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To provide a framework of sexual perversions so that the motives and psychology of rapists can be better understood.
  
  
  METHODS
  Analytic literature.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Unconscious motives leading to rape appear related to issues of control, power, and dominance.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Janssen
mesh_terms: D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D011209:Power, Psychological; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011902:Rape; D012742:Sex Offenses / Q000523:psychology*