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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8583
EAN num: 9781559704250
ISBN number: 155970425X
Label: Arcade Publishing
Manufacturer: Arcade Publishing
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 464
Printing Date: November 30, 1998
Publishing house: Arcade Publishing
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Controversial for decades, now finally back in print, this classic 19th-century work on so-called sexual deviation is the pioneering collection of case studies that cataloged and defined 'perversion'--from fetishism to incest to homosexuality and much more. Informative and entertaining, PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS is considered one of the most important documents in humankind's modern efforts to understand itself.
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Psychopathia Sexualis is a pretty good book but I found myself skipping a lot of it because it got really dull.
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It is a great book for anyone interested in sexual studies. It's interesting to anyone who likes seeing how views change through the centuries. The book is quite comprehensive and lists a good deal of sexual fetishes and deviances. While it may be a scientific book, some may find it a bit arousing to read some of the stories. Whatever you're pleasure, it's an interesting and fun book to read that's educational. You don't get that too often.
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Although some of Dr. Richard von Krafft-Ebing's 19th c. theories and conclusions have been discredited or rejected by contemporary psychiatry, this is an incredibly interesting and shocking collection of personal individual case histories of "sexual perverts"--lust murderers, vampires, necrophiles, rapists, lesbian nymphomaniacs, zoophiles, sadists, masochists, pedophiles, coprophiles, fetishists, voyeurs, exhibitionists, defilers of dummies or statues, and other sick and twisted kooks and crazies. Each case history is numbered, giving the patient's background and deviant sexual history, although only the patient's initials are given. In all there are over 200 individual patients evaluated. The author Krafft-Ebing meant this highly controversial study to be accessible only in Latin and available only to the medical community so as not to corrupt the less well-bred. However, it has since been translated into several languages and has become essential reading for students of abhorrent and alternative sexuality and criminal psychology; it has also been read as a new form of pornography by some.
David Rehak
author of "A Young Girl's Crimes"
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As a student of the history of homosexuality, this is one of the best (and cheapest) editions of one of the best nineteenth century sources out there. Krafft-Ebing's work provides a quaint and often humorous reading today, but was largely considered on the cutting edge of sexology in its day and provides a great contrast with the works of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, whose publications are finally in modern translation. This unabridged book is well worth the price.
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Like "Wisconsin Death Trip," this book provides strangely familiar tales of madness, perversion, and death from the 19th century. Part of the fascination of the book is that it was written *before* Freud, and that it not biased by the views of Freud or his critics. As such, it almost reads like the dispassionate report of visitors from another planet.
Much of the subject matter is familiar grist for modern tabloids. And some of it rather amusing, especially the idea that masturbation leads to illness, insanity, and death. As in "Death Trip," this was an age when science was still groping for the causes of many types of mental illness that are still not truely cureable.
It is also interesting to compare modern standards to those of a hundred years ago. Sexual acts that were considered beyond the bounds of decency a hundred years ago even for married couples are likely to be recomended by a minister today. But many stories in which sexual acting out (infidelity, sudden change of sexual orientation) is part of a general pattern of self-destruction seem as relevant and cautionary as ever. The authors are also very matter of fact about transexuals and some very "modern" activities, which psycholanalysts seem to have given wide berth for decades. On the other hand, it isn't clear what has happened to bustle fetishists.
And before we congratulate ourselves on our sophisitication, it is also interesting that Krafft-Ebing found well established networks of dedicated pedophiles, and that a hundred years later we have not solved the problem and barely acknowledge it. Also, they were found many instances of adult female nannies and teachers molesting male children and students, which has only recently been getting much attention.
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