title: A case of female hypersexuality and child abuse and a review.
abstract: Mother-son incest as well as female pedophilic disorder remain underrecognized and misdiagnosed. This is the case of a female child abuser who suffered from hypersexual disorder and mental retardation and whose son was viewed as a substitute transitional sexual partner. Our clinical case shared some common features with female sex offenders previously described in the literature but the association of sexual gratification and hypersexuality without pedophilic fantasies is quite uncommon in female child abusers.
authors.affiliation: INSERM U 894, Centre Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Paris, France.|Generale de Sante, Hôpital privé de l'Estuaire, Le Havre, France.
authors.forename: Sandrine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lamy
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Saúde Mental, INCT de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
authors.forename: Héloise
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Delavenne
authors.affiliation: INSERM U 894, Centre Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Paris, France. florence.thibaut@aphp.fr.|Psychiatry and Addictive Disorders Department, University Hospital Cochin-Tarnier and Faculty of Medicine Paris Descartes, Paris, France. florence.thibaut@aphp.fr.
authors.forename: Florence
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Thibaut
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007179:Incest; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D010378:Pedophilia / Q000628:therapy; D012742:Sex Offenses / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Child abuse; Female; Hypersexuality; Incest; Pedophilia; Sex offender; Sexual abuse