Stepchildren of nature
Krafft-Ebing, psychiatry, and the making of sexual identity
by Harry Oosterhuis
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"Psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840-1902) played a key role in the construction of the modern concept of sexuality." "In this new cultural history Harry Oosterhuis invites us to reconsider the quality and extent of Krafft-Ebing's influence. Revisiting the case studies on which Krafft-Ebing based his findings, and thus drawing on the voices of his patients and informants, Oosterhuis finds that Krafft-Ebing was not the harsh judge of perversions that we think he was. He argues that Krafft-Ebing had a deep appreciation of the psyche, and that his work reveals an attempt to separate sexual deviancies from ideas of immorality. In the tradition of Freud, then, Krafft-Ebing should stand not as a villain, but as a contributor to more modern notions of sexual identity."--BOOK JACKET.
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Paraphilies, Psychology, Seksuele afwijkingen, Sozialmedizin, Sexualité (psychologie), Perversion sexuelle, Sexuality, Treatment, Psychiatry, Identité sexuelle, History, Seksuologie, Wissenschaftstheorie, Abweichendes Sexualverhalten, Psychiatrie, Gender Identity, Histoire, Sexology, Sexologie, Psychologie, Traitement, ParaphiliasPeople
Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840-1902), Richard von Krafft-Ebing, R. von Krafft-Ebing (1840-1902)Times
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Stepchildren of nature: Krafft-Ebing, psychiatry, and the making of sexual identity
2000, University of Chicago Press
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0226630595 9780226630595
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-309) and index.
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