Is infantilism and/or Paraphilic infantilism a part of a underlieing medical condiction?
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Not really. \n\n"Infantilism (paraphilic) is a certain psychological condition experienced by those whose level of physical maturity has clearly progressed beyond the life-stage of infancy. The defining aspect of this condition is the derivation of a profound sense of well-being or of a certain type of great pleasure that becomes associated with various infantile objects and/ or infantile roleplaying."\n\nIt is a form of mental instability in which the majority of people (mostly men) who are afflicted with it apparently have been abused as children (not all, but most of them).
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how many years of medical school did it take to reach that opinion?\n\nsomehow I doubt simplistic generalizations can be applied to all circumstances.
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Chloric and Meloncholy, please forgive my spelling.  They were based on the "foour humors", before modern medicine.  If you had an inbalance in bodily fluids, you personality would swing in the direction of your homor.
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Yes, but most often the baby is sterile and cannot reproduce.\nTiger and Lion- Liger\nDolphin and Whale- Wolphin\nHorse and Donkey- Mule
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psychiatry is certainly not a religion.  i have had a very successful experience with psychiatric medicine as have many others.  but i don't have completely blind faith in it.  i know that others do not have successful experiences and need to develop other healthy ways to cope, such as therapy, exersize, hobbies, strong relationships, etc.  there is no reason to fight psychiatry.  it can be good for some people.  we just need to recognize it is not the only answer to mental health problems.
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No.  A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.  Pre-viability, the baby is still a being with a rational nature, just not able to use reason yet.
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The Oedipus Complex was a term coined by Freud and is supposedly an innate characteristic.  If you ask me, Freud was a little crazy.  I'm sure it didn't help that his mother was beautiful.
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Logical levels of abstraction and specification exist in the realms of the social, mental and physical -> so yes such concepts are a smothering by politically minded people, but also concepts are maintained by those without time to consider such things or minds...... its also worth stating that biological, psychological and social differences do exist and are studied by psychologists, neurologists, sociologists and the like -> however these studies are usually stopped in this politically crazy era in order to stop 'socially sensititve implications' occuring and thus causing mindless racisism and homophobia - obviously we cant go into every element but i think these are key concepts
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All the answers so far are pretty gloomy but there is a grain of truth in them. For if a child psycholgist became an adult losing all contacts with childhood he will soon go out of practice.This he can hardly affford to do.It is professionally necessary for him to be in tune with the psychology of children. This can be done only if he remains in tune with children. Outwardly it may appear that the adult psychologist is indulging in child-like fancies.Unless he does or feigns to do he cannot obtain the confidence of the child patients. They would withdraw into themseles and just clamp us.Three obstinacies are beyond correction-child,woman and king. The kings are no more leaving only two in the field of which    child obstinaccy is a hard nut to crack except with a toy hammer. Unless the child psychologist keeps his knowledge of handling it throughout he may even strike his head and yet the child would not open up.So thank god and pray to him(if you are abeliever) that the child psychologist should continue to remain a child throughout his life Let the  dwarf remain a midget  throughout.. Then and then only he can talk in prattle with children which is the only language they understand, draw out their fears and remove them.
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I'm not judgmental and I won't quote the Bible. I've got a lot of friends who have heard or even experienced that! It's somethin' perfectly normal, the breast being full of nerve endings and highly sensitive. It can not be called pedophilia in any way! Those who think different better read some more before talkin'!
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Please. I don't remember asking psychoanalysts for their theory on something that has been around since adam and eve.\nShrinks have only been around since late the last 100 years anyway.
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Do you want laypersons terms that the general populace might be able to comprehend, or do you want upper level comprehension? :O)~\n\nIntersexes are either genital shapes and sizes not congruent with current dominant standards of genital shape and size preferences.\n\nIntersexes are also people whose chromosome patterns might not be xx or xy (such as xxy or xxxy, or xxxo, or xo, or mosaic meaning a mix of chromosome patters across different cells)\n\nIntersexes are also a mix of both of the above two options.\n\nThe thing about labeling someone intersex, is that when people from the medical community are deciding whether or not to label someone intersex, they often fluctuate as there is not set standard of criterion across the board. \n\nSome use size standards, such as a phallus that is larger than .9cm is too large for a female, therefore if the doctor feels that the [infant] should have been female according to the doctors preferences looking at genitals and /or chromosomes etc the doctor might trim the phallus or remove it (social construction of the female sex)\n\nAnd if the phallus is smaller than 2.5cm and/or the doctor feels that the [infant] would be unable to stand while urinating as an adult, on an [infant] the doctor feels should have been male according to the doctors preferences looking at genitals and/or chromosomes etc, the doctor might choose to do genital reconstructions and possibly hormone replacement therapy to construct the [infant] as a female regardless of chromosomes etc.\n\nSex is on a spectrum, you see, where the categories of male and female are not static, meaning, not absolute categories, but rather made up of cultural preferences, they are invented labels put on varrying places on the sex spectrum in order to validate a cultures claims of categories of sex, to perpetuate the segregation of human beings.\n\nIntersexes are often marginalized or stigmatized by societies in order to preserve the western binary gender and sex systems which declare that there are only two sexes, and only two corresponding genders, that both are biological, and that the placement of certain sex and gender labels on human bodies mean something, signify something, often socially and religeously. For this reason, many intersexes are subjected to cosmetic surgery, isolation, shame, discrimination, invalidation, and less access to vital medical care and information about their bodies. And often when they are given medical care or information, it is in such a way that highlights cultural preferences/standards for "male" and "female" and downplays the validity of a natural human body which does not conform to these cultural preferences.
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First question. If you mean sexual interciurse then of course, IVF (AI) etc\nBut as this is biology then ill assume you mean syngamy between gamets. \nIn which case the option is cloning which is not established as viable in humans yet (Korean research is under fraud investigation so its validity unclear at present) but is not permitted in most countries anyway.\n\nAs to the second question:- NO\nAsides one alleged and unlikely case (the virgin birth of mary yielding jesus christ which if it was true (unlikely) was a dead end as it was a male), parthenogensis (asexual reproduction) has never been reported in humans. Morever it is very unlikely to be viable or to occur due to imprinting etc.
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Some illnesses/medical disorders can ONLY be cured by surgery or a medical intervention. It's not a matter of crossing your fingers and hoping that your child doesn't die. If you are truly religious you would realize that God has given people the ability and intelligence to be physicians for a reason. I think anyone that denies their child medical care for 'religious reasons' should be charged with neglect and attempted murder. There have been way too many cases of children dying from people that have distorted religious beliefs.
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Bible has a lot of citations about "possessions by demons", and epileptics. I read about the greek doctors in Jesus time, used "beladona", and opium to relieve it. and if you read the "Thousand and one nights", the Arab stories told by princess Scheherezade, that mental illness were quite common and the affected were arrested and locked as animals.
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http://www.psychology.soton.ac.uk/psyweb/staff/myprofile/mypublications/publications/jsteven/sonugabarke%20psychol%20med.pdf
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I suggest you look at both these journals: they are very good at looking at both sides of the argument:\n\n\n Frith U, Emanuel Miller lecture: confusions and controversies about Asperger syndrome.\nJ Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2004 May;45(4):672-86. Review. \n \n\n Macintosh KE, Dissanayake C. The similarities and differences between autistic disorder and Asperger's disorder: a review of the empirical evidence.\nJ Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2004 Mar;45(3):421-34. Review. \n\nBriefly, my impressions are that they are similar, but have separate etiologies (causes) leading to similar behaviural phenotypes to classic autism.