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Psychopathia Sexualis

Psychopathia Sexualis

by R. von Krafft-Ebing

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Author
Krafft-Ebing, R. von (Richard), 1840-1902
Title
Psychopathia sexualis: With especial reference to contrary sexual instinct A medico-legal study
Credits
Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
HQ: Social sciences: The family, Marriage, Sex and Gender
Subject
Paraphilias
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 64931
Release Date
March 26, 2021
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Psychopathia Sexualis , WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO Contrary Sexual Instinct: A MEDICO-LEGAL STUDY.
  2. 2.PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
  3. 3.TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE.
  4. 4.TABLE OF CONTENTS.
  5. 5.I. A FRAGMENT OF A PSYCHOLOGY OF THE SEXUAL LIFE.
  6. 6.II. PHYSIOLOGY. — The Act of Cohabitation. [27]
  7. 7.III. GENERAL PATHOLOGY. [28] — (NEUROLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL.) — II. SPINAL NEUROSES. — 1. Affections of the Erection Centre. — 2. Affections of the Ejaculation Centre. — III. CEREBRAL NEUROSES. — A. Paradoxia. Sexual Instinct Manifesting itself Independently of Physiological Processes. — B. Anæsthesia Sexualis (Absence of Sexual Feeling). — C. Hyperæsthesia (Abnormally Increased Sexual Desire). — D. Paræsthesia of Sexual Feeling (Perversion of the Sexual Instinct). — II. Great Diminution or Complete Absence of Sexual Feeling for the Opposite Sex, with Substitution of Sexual Feeling and Instinct for the Same Sex. (Homo-sexuality, or Contrary Sexual Instinct). — III. Degree: Stage of Transition to Metamorphosis Sexualis Paranoica. — DIAGNOSIS, PROGNOSIS, AND THERAPY OF CONTRARY SEXUAL INSTINCT.
  8. 8.IV. SPECIAL PATHOLOGY. THE MANIFESTATIONS OF ABNORMAL SEXUAL LIFE IN THE VARIOUS FORMS AND STATES OF MENTAL DISTURBANCE. — Arrest of Mental Development. — States of Acquired Mental Weakness. — (1) Dementia Consecutive to Psychoses. — (2) Dementia After Apoplexy. — (3) Dementia After Injury of Head. — (4) Acquired Mental Weakness, Probably Resulting from Lues. — Periodical Insanity. — Satyriasis and Nymphomania.
  9. 9.V. PATHOLOGICAL SEXUALITY IN ITS LEGAL ASPECTS. — 1. Offense Against Morality in the Form of Exhibition. — 2. Rape and Lust-Murder. — 3. Bodily Injury, Injury to Property, and Torture of Animals Dependent on Sadism. [135] — 4. Bodily Injury, Robbery, and Theft Dependent on Fetichism. — 5. Violation of Individuals Under the Age of Fourteen. — 6. Unnatural Abuse—Sodomy. [140] — (a) Violation of Animals—Bestiality. [141] — (b) With Persons of the Same Sex—Pederasty; Sodomy in its Strict Sense. — Cultivated Pederasty. [143] — Lesbian Love. [146] — 7. Necrophilia. [147] — 8. Incest. — 9. Immoral Acts with Persons in the Care of Others; Seduction (Austrian).
  10. 10.INDEX.

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