Pandora Replies to Dr Frances
By Kenneth J. Zucker, PhD | February 22, 2010

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Dr Zucker is chair of the DSM5 Workgroup on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders. He is psychologist-in-chief at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and the head, Gender Identity Service, Child, Youth, and Family Program at CAMH. He is a professor in the department of psychiatry, University of Toronto.

In his recent David Letterman-like Top-19 list of DSM5 issues, Dr Allen Frances targeted a proposed revision of the DSM-IV diagnosis of Pedophilia, and 2 proposed new diagnoses: Hypersexual Disorder and Paraphilic Coercive Disorder. He protests the inclusion of pubescent teenagers in the definition of the proposed revision of Pedophilia (including the renaming of it as Pedohebephilic Disorder) and criticizes the quality of writing of these criteria.1 As the chair of the DSM5 workgroup responsible for those draft criteria, I need to address his poorly reasoned claims.