Author: Dr. R. v. Krafft-Ebing; F. J. Rebman [trans.]
Title: Psychopathia Sexualis with Especial Reference to Antipathic Sexual Instinct, a Medico-Forensic Study
Description: London, Rebman, Limited, 1905 . Leather. A scarce early English language edition of Richard von Krafft-Ebing's important work on sexual pathology and paraphilias. First published in the original German in 1886, and first published in English in 1892, this work is scarce in all early English language translations.This translation - by F. J. Rebman - is based on the tenth German edition.Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece.An early and influential work in the study of human sexuality, Krafft-Ebing's work catalogues numerous case studies of what he saw as sexual pathologies, including behaviours such as fetishism, sadism, masochism, homosexuality, and more.The 'Psychopathia Sexualis' is notable for being one of the earliest works on homosexuality, and had considerable influence on forensic psychiatry in the early twentieth century. In the publisher's quarter morocco binding, with cloth covered boards. Externally smart, with light fading to back strip, and light rubbing to back strip head and tail. Front hinge strained, but generally firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

Keywords: Psychopathia sexualis Richard von Krafft-Ebing psychiatry sexuality Richard von Krafft-Ebing paraphilia homosexuality Not Stated


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