Anatomy of masochism /

Are dominance and submission inevitable in human relationships? Believing that sadomasochism is becoming an ever more obtrusive phenomenon in developed countries, the author surveyed 48 self-declared sadomasochists (43 male, 5 female) and 35 controls (26 male, 9 female) in an effort to elicit inform...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rathbone, June
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, [2001]
Series:	Plenum series in social/clinical psychology.
Subjects:	Sadomasochism. Interpersonal relations. Masochism. Interpersonal Relations. Sadism. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Freud's writings on masochism examined in detail
Survey of psychological literature (1926 onwards)
Review of empirical studies on sadomasochism
An integrated psychodynamic model of masochism
An empirical investigation of sadomasochism
The adult attachment interview
The 'emotional' Stroop task
The Beck depression inventory
Questionnaires concerning chronicity, practice and motivation of sadomasochism
General discussion and conclusions
The question of control.