Society and culture
Actor Stephen Fry has spoken about his experience with cyclothymia, which was depicted in the documentary Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive.Singer Charlene Soraia has cyclothymia and wrote a song about her experiences with the disorder. See also
References
Cited sources
Sadock, Benjamin; Sadock, Virginia; Ruiz, Pedro, eds. (2017). "13. Mood Disorders". Kaplan and Sadocks Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry (10th ed.). New York: Wolters Kluwer. == External links ==
A 2021 review estimated zoophilic behavior occurs in 2% of the general population. Sexual arousal from watching animals mate is known as faunoiphilia. Perspectives on zoophilia
Research perspectives
Zoophilia has been partly discussed by several sciences: psychology (the study of the human mind), sexology (a relatively new discipline primarily studying human sexuality), ethology (the study of animal behavior), and anthrozoology (the study of human–animal interactions and bonds). In the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), zoophilia is placed in the classification "other specified paraphilic disorder" ("paraphilias not otherwise specified" in the DSM-III and IV). The World Health Organization takes the same position, listing a sexual preference for animals in its ICD -10 as "other disorder of sexual preference". In the DSM-5, it rises to the level of a diagnosable disorder only when accompanied by distress or interference with normal functioning.Zoophilia may also be covered to some degree by other fields such as ethics, philosophy, law, animal rights and animal welfare. It may also be touched upon by sociology which looks both at zoosadism in examining patterns and issues related to sexual abuse and at non-sexual zoophilia in examining the role of animals as emotional support and companionship in human lives, and may fall within the scope of psychiatry if it becomes necessary to consider its significance in a clinical context. The Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine (Vol.