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Psychopathia sexualis: With especial reference to contrary sexual instinct / A medico-legal study — R. von Krafft-Ebing

Psychopathia sexualis: With especial reference to contrary sexual instinct / A medico-legal study

R. von Krafft-Ebing

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 521 pages

Psychopathia Sexualis is a medico-legal study in essay form by Richard von Krafft-Ebing, based on clinical case histories. It examines sexual pathology and what the author called 'contrary sexual instinct,' from psychiatric and legal perspectives. It is worth listening to as a historical document of early sexology and its era's attitudes.

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Psychopathia Sexualis,

WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO

Contrary Sexual Instinct:

A MEDICO-LEGAL STUDY.

By Dr. R. von KRAFFT-EBING,

Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, University of Vienna.

AUTHORIZED TRANSLATION

OF THE

SEVENTH ENLARGED AND REVISED GERMAN EDITION,

BY

CHARLES GILBERT CHADDOCK, M.D.,

Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases, Marion-Sims College of Medicine, St. Louis; Fellow of the

Chicago Academy of Medicine; Corresponding Member of the Detroit Academy of Medicine; Associate

Member of the American Medico-Psychological Association, etc.

PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON:

THE F. A. DAVIS CO., PUBLISHERS.

1893.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1892, by

THE F. A. DAVIS COMPANY,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C., U. S.

A.

All rights reserved.

Philadelphia, Pa., U. S. A.:

The Medical Bulletin Printing

House,

1916 Cherry Street.

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Contents

  1. Psychopathia Sexualis, WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO Contrary Sexual Instinct: A MEDICO-LEGAL STUDY.
  2. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
  3. TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE.
  4. TABLE OF CONTENTS.
  5. I. A FRAGMENT OF A PSYCHOLOGY OF THE SEXUAL LIFE.
  6. II. PHYSIOLOGY.
  7. III. GENERAL PATHOLOGY.[28]
  8. IV. SPECIAL PATHOLOGY. THE MANIFESTATIONS OF ABNORMAL SEXUAL LIFE IN THE VARIOUS FORMS AND STATES OF MENTAL DISTURBANCE.
  9. V. PATHOLOGICAL SEXUALITY IN ITS LEGAL ASPECTS.
  10. INDEX.
  11. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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