Psychopathia sexualis : a medico-forensic study /

Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-forensic Study, Twelfth Edition deals with the psychology of deviant sexual behavior. The book discusses the psychology and the physiology of sexual life including anthropological conditions such as Gynecomasty. The author describes general pathology including anesthe...

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Main Author: Krafft-Ebing, R. von (Richard), 1840-1902 (Author)
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from German.
Published: London : William Heinemann (Medical Books) Ltd., 1939.
Edition:Twelfth edition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-forensic Study, Twelfth Edition deals with the psychology of deviant sexual behavior. The book discusses the psychology and the physiology of sexual life including anthropological conditions such as Gynecomasty. The author describes general pathology including anesthesia sexualis (absence of sexual feeling), hyperesthesia (abnormally increased sexual desire), paraesthesia (perversion), masochism, sadism, fetishism, and antipathic sexuality. The author also examines homosexuality (as abnormal congenital manifestation), effimination, and androgyny. Special patholo.
Item Description:"Only authorized English adaptation of the last German edition revised by Krafft-Ebing."
Includes index.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 626 pages)
ISBN:9781483166629
1483166627