Informaciones Psiquiátricas 2025 - nº 259 47 Introduction The act of seducing, from the Latin seducere, when referring to people, often has a pejorative connotation. Akin to persuasion, it involves inducing or redirecting and luring the subject or group along the path that suits the seducer. It is sometimes considered an art, a means or a technique for communicating, although it is more properly an overt or subtle ruse. Commonly, it is expected that the seductive attitude and actions are more conscious for the seducer than for the seduced, although the nuances in this respect are enormous. Ambivalence must be admitted as consubstantial to seduction and a central component of it. This contribution will not deal with so-called “Freudian seduction” – Sigmund Freud’s complex hypothesis put forward between 1895 and 1897 – nor with that of his schools and followers. In their relation to seduction, the hypothetical, loose and traditional archetypal patterns or “enneatypes” of personality (based on the search of a small number of representative elements), will not be dealt with either, and will only be mentioned again at the end. Seduction is nowadays usually related to desire or the search for intimacy, romance or eroticism in interrelationships, whether between minors or adults. This is briefly mentioned in the first sub-section of results and discussion in this article. Logically, any psychopathology may exist that conditions the seducer or the seduced to a different degree, a question that will be dealt with in a generic way in the second sub-section. Material and Method In order to evaluate, analyse and summarise the scientific evidence related to seduction, whether or not linked to psychopathology, the heterogeneity and vastness of the international scientific literature makes it impossible to conduct a systematic review with or without meta-analysis. It is also impossible to present a summary of systematic reviews since there are none, so we have chosen the alternative method of comprehensive and descriptive narrative synthesis, i.e. without statistical analysis, of the realities tested. After a logical, relevant electronic search, followed by manual screening, and prioritising PubMed (National Library of Medicine), as well as books and other direct, indirect and secondary sources, the selected number of references for this synthetic, theoretical and limited review is n= 64. The present research has been carried out and is presented below under two main facets selected as the most appropriate way to summarise the scientifically recognised answers to basic questions on the issue. The quality of published research has been verified and data and information extracted to enable discussion and conclusions of relevant findings. The results obtained have been aggregated, integrated and sometimes interpreted. It is therefore an updated secondary, qualitative scientific study, with argued or contrasted theoretical components. The risk of certain biases has been countered by having benefited from the prior favourable opinions of a number of independent qualified consultants SEDUCTION: PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
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