Paul Fedoroff
J. Paul Fedoroff (born August 23, 1958) is a Canadian forensic psychiatrist, sexologist, and researcher who specializes in treating individuals with paraphilic disorders and/or individuals with developmental delay. He has worked at several psychiatry sites as a staff psychiatrist, including: John Hopkins School of Medicine, Toronto Hospital, Whitby Medical Health Centre, and Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)[1][2]. He is now the first Director of the Sexual Behaviours Clinic at the Institute of Mental Health Research at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre located in Ottawa, Ontario. He is a Full Professor of Forensic Psychiatry, Criminology, and Law at the University of Ottawa.[3]
Fedoroff is known for his research on assessing and treating individuals who have committed sexual offences and/or individuals who have problematic sexual interests (known as paraphilic interests). He has published over 200 research articles and book chapters. He is known for stating that a paradigm shift can change the way we view human sexuality, thereby changing how we approach treating paraphilic disorders. He states that sexual interests can change through treatment and his treatment program has been recognized in the media[4]. The details of his treatment approach for problematic sexual interests is described in his book The Paraphilias: Changing Suits in the Evolution of Sexual Interest Paradigms.[5] In his book, he describes the five characteristics of sexuality and their fluidity. He defines sexuality as consisting of the following five characteristics: genetics, gender, orientation, sexual drive, and sexual interest. His view is that sexual interests are moderately to highly mutable, and these sexual interests refers to both non-paraphilic interests and paraphilic interests. His book contains his experiences assessing and successfully treating patients with paraphilic disorders, as well as the latest treatment research on those paraphilic disorders.
Biography
Early life and education
John Paul Fedoroff was born and raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He is the son of Sergey Fedoroff, the fourth President of the Pan American Association of Anatomy (1975-1978), who is considered the father of tissue culture for his research in tissue culture and nerve cell regeneration.[6]
In 1980, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Advanced) in Psychology, and went on to pursue medical school at the College of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. He went onto become a Senior Clinical Fellow in Neuropsychiatry and a Clinical Fellow in Advanced Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions from 1988 to 1990. At Johns Hopkins, he was supervised by Dr. John Money, who is known for his research on gender and theory of lovemaps. In 1990, Fedoroff then pursued a Clinical Fellow in Forensic Psychiatry at the Clark Institute of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.
Views
Gender
Although Fedoroff was mentored by John Money, he disagrees with Money who combines gender, orientation, and interest. Money proposed that once gender roles were "imprinted," they were permanent and unchangeable.[7] Instead, Fedoroff states that the current paradigm of human sexuality should shift away from Money's "lovemaps" paradigm which were established in the 1950s, and view sexuality as having five distinct components with varying levels of mutability. These five components are: genetics, gender, sexual drive, sexual orientation, and sexual interest.
Orientation
Fedoroff has also engaged in debate with James Cantor on whether pedophilic disorder can be cured and whether pedophilic interests can change.[8][9][10]
The Prevention Project
Awards and honors
Fedoroff was previously the President of the International Academy of Sex Research (IASR)[11] and the Canadian Association of Psychiatry and the Law.[12] His work has been recognized by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in 2015 when the APA awarded the Sexual Behaviours Clinic with the Gold Achievement Award. The Gold Achievement Award is the highest honour given by the APA for excellence in academic clinical research program in North America. [13]. In 2017, he was awarded the Earl L. Loschen Award for Clinical Practice from the National Association for the Dually Diagnosed (NADD).[14] The Sexual Behaviours Clinic was awarded the Community Safety Award from Crime Prevention Ottawa in 2018; this award was given for his work in preventing sex crimes in the community by treating individuals who are at risk of committing them (and who either have, or never have and are believed to be at risk). [15].
References
- ↑ "J. Paul Fedoroff". Transgender Map. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
- ↑ "IATSO Conference Board". IATSO. INDIGES.
- ↑ "J. Paul Fedoroff". uOttawa. University of Ottawa. Retrieved 4 October 2020.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ Paperny, Anna Mehler (November 7, 2014). ""I thought I'd be that way forever": How do you treat a violent sex disorder?". Global. Global News. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
- ↑ Fedoroff, J. Paul (2020). The Paraphilias: Changing Suits in the Evolution of Sexual Interest Paradigms (1 ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-046632-9. Search this book on
- ↑ "Sergey Fedoroff: A pioneer of the neuronal regeneration. Tribute from the Pan American Association of Anatomy" (PDF). International Journal of Morphology. 33 (2): 794–800. 2015. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
- ↑ Money, John (March 1957). "Imprinting and the establishment of gender role". Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry. 77 (3): 333–336. doi:10.1001/archneurpsyc.1957.02330330119019. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
- ↑ Fedoroff, J. Paul (August 20, 2018). ""Can People with Pedophilia Change?: Yes they can!"". Current Sexual Health Reports. 10: 207–212. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11930-018-0166-1 Check
|doi=value (help). Retrieved 1 February 2021. - ↑ Cantor, James M.; Fedoroff, J. Paul (September 17, 2018). "Can Pedophiles Change? Response to Opening Arguments and Conclusions". Current Sexual Health Reports. 10: 213–220. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11930-018-0167-0 Check
|doi=value (help). Retrieved 1 February 2021. - ↑ Fedoroff, J. Paul (June 2020). "The Pedophilia and Orientation Debate and Its Implications for Forensic Psychiatry". Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. 48 (2): 146–150. doi:https://doi.org/10.29158/JAAPL.200011-20 Check
|doi=value (help). Retrieved 1 February 2021. - ↑ "Past IASR Conferences". IASR. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
- ↑ "Appointee Biographies: Ontario Review Board". Ontario Government. Queen's Printer. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
- ↑ "Four Outstanding Mental Health Programs To Be Honored at IPS: The Mental Health Services Conference". American Psychiatric Association. American Psychiatric Association. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ↑ "Earl L. Loschen Award for Clinical Practice". NADD. NADD. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
- ↑ "Clinic director wins community safety award". The Royal. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
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