[Clinical and relational approach to imprisoned perpetrators of sexual violence]

Who are these people who sexually assault others, adults or children? They are called 'monsters', 'predators', 'sex offenders', but who is really hidden behind these stereotypes? The diversity of the patients who are perpetrators of sexual violence poses a challenge in terms of the encounter with them; through what they have done but also what they are and what they have experienced. The question then arises of how to establish a relationship with them, and how, as a caregiver, to go beyond one's own representations in order to implement a therapeutic approach.