Pedophilia, a view from the film psychological

Abstract

The following article is an attempt to present the psychological analysis of a film by Nicole Kassell, director of cinema of the United States, entitled "The Woodsman" or "The lumberjack", a movie that is the story of Walter, a former inmate who spends twelve years in prison for sexual crimes committed to girls and after completing his sentence, released from prison to enter in a society which is not located which does not feel belong and which remind continuously the pathological of his being. It is reviewed from the film, the particularities in the experience of the protagonist, the diagnosis of pedophilia, the possibilities of his childhood psychosexual development, its link with a colleague and the role of the society in similar cases.