The Personality of a Child Molester argues two main points. The
first is that dreams, without free associations or amplification or
knowledge of the dreamer, can shed considerable light upon the
essential character structure, psychodynamics, and psychosexual
development of such individuals. The second is that the frequency
of occurrence of a dream element or theme is a direct measure of
the preoccupation with that topic in waking life.
Bell and Hall gather their evidence from a wide assortment of
data. Such evidence helps increase our understanding of such
people, whose life and self-revelations on first appearance seem to
merit this special attention. Interestingly, their study involved
little collaboration on the part of the authors. In fact, the
authors only met each other two years after the project got
underway. At that time they reached an understanding as to how the
material would be presented.
They decided to demonstrate child molesters' dream content from
a theoretical perspective. The theoretical base provided by
Freudian theory was used in this particular study because it seemed
to provide the kinds of constructs that could be useful in
describing the dreamer's personality. The authors attempt to
explain why the dreamer who is a child molester is the sort of
person he is, and his dreams are the source of evidence for the
explanation presented. This study presented here has been used by
behavioral researchers for years in trying to understand the
personality of a child molester. It remains as relevant today as
when it was initially published.
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