ABSTRACT
The typical sex offender comes to treatment under the shadow of a profound contradiction: He recognizes that his actions periodically move past his control, apparently leaving him subject to sexual and aggressive urges that he does not understand. At the same time, he may be convinced that the shock and shame o f discovery and the possibility or reality o f arrest and incarceration are so frightening that he will never again indulge those urges. However great his awareness o f the con tradiction, he must ultimately accept the reality: I f will alone were enough to deter him, more than likely he would have already drawn on the power o f that will and not engaged in sexual aggression.
