International Perspectives on the Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Offenders by Douglas P. Boer & Reinhard Eher & Leam A. Craig & Michael H. Miner & Friedemann Pfäfflin

Author:Douglas P. Boer & Reinhard Eher & Leam A. Craig & Michael H. Miner & Friedemann Pfäfflin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2010-11-24T05:00:00+00:00

As elucidated here, denial is a very complex phenomenon and one cannot treat deniers as one group. There is a continuum starting from blunt lying, over cognitive distortions and ultimately failed schemes (or being very aware of one's distortions, to somewhat deliberately distort and finally distorting completely unconsciously). Gibbons, de Volder, and Casey (2003) concluded after cluster analyzing a mixed group of sex offenders that denial cannot be considered a dichotomous phenomenon. Differences in the patterns of denial displayed by rapists and child molesters were found to be primarily quantitative rather than qualitative.

So the picture of what denial is, turns out to be very complex. Focusing on the behavior itself does not seem to be of much help. Denial must be considered in the actual context of the person denying. We must look at the psychological significance of the denying behavior. What are the motives to deny?

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