James M. Cantor
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry
University of Toronto
Canada
Biography
Dr. James Cantor is a psychologist and Senior Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). His research projects focus on atypical sexual behaviours, including hypersexuality and the neurological basis of pedophilia and other paraphilias. He is Editor-in-Chief of Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, the official journal for the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers. Dr. Cantor’s work has been published in Psychological Bulletin, the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, and the Oxford Textbook of Psychopathology, and he has appeared on multiple media outlets, including CNN, the BBC, and CBC, to discuss how his and other findings can best be applied to prevent sexual abuse.Dr. James Cantor is a psychologist and Senior Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). His research projects focus on atypical sexual behaviours, including hypersexuality and the neurological basis of pedophilia and other paraphilias. He is Editor-in-Chief of Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, the official journal for the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers. Dr. Cantor’s work has been published in Psychological Bulletin, the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, and the Oxford Textbook of Psychopathology, and he has appeared on multiple media outlets, including CNN, the BBC, and CBC, to discuss how his and other findings can best be applied to prevent sexual abuse.
Research Interest
Dr. James Cantor received his Ph.D. from McGill University and completed his postdoctoral training at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH; Toronto). His clinical activities have focused primarily on the assessment of persons dealing with illegal or clinically significant sexual behaviours and interests such as pedophilia and other paraphilias, (so-called) sexual addictions, and persons with sexual orientation or gender identity concerns. His program of research investigates the biological contributors to sexual orientation, gender identity, and paraphilic sexual interests, using a variety of brain imaging, neuropsychological, and psychophysiological techniques.
