Psychopathia sexualis : with especial reference to contrary sexual instinct : a clinical-forensic study / by Richard von Krafft-Ebing ; edited with an introduction by Brian King ; translated from the twelfth and final edition complete and unabridged.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krafft-Ebing, R. von (Richard), 1840-1902

Contributor:

King, Brian, 1962-

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Standardized Title:

Psychopathia sexualis. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Paraphilias.

Physical Description:

xlv, 683 pages ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

Burbank, Calif. : Bloat, ©1999.

Summary:

"This unabridged classic from the founder of modern sexual pathology contains 238 case histories detailing every form of sexual perversion - with a new appendix of additional case histories unpublished for over one hundred years. Translated from the twelfth and final German edition, Psychopathia Sexualis is essential reading for students of sexual perversity, criminal psychology, and European fin-de-siecle art and literature."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents:

Preface to the first German edition (1886) / Richard von Krafft-Ebing

Preface to the twelfth German edition (1902) / Richard von Krafft-Ebing

Preface to the twelfth English edition (1906) / Medical Art Agency

Introduction to the twelfth English edition (1939) / Victor Robinson

The creation of a new science / Brian King

1. Fragments of a system of psychology of sexual life

2. Physiological facts

3. Anthropological facts

4. General pathology (neurological and psychological)

5. Special pathology: the manifestations of abnormal sexual life in the various forms and states of mental disturbance

6. Pathological sexuality in its legal aspects

7. Appendix.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

0965032418

9780965032414

OCLC:

41323458