Título: Havelock Ellis
Seção: Medicine and psychology
Background: Henry Havelock Ellis, known as Havelock Ellis (2 February 1859 - 8 July 1939), was an English physician, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He co-authored the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and inclinations, as well as on transgender psychology. He is credited with introducing the notions of narcissism and autoeroticism, later adopted by psychoanalysis. Ellis was among the pioneering investigators of psychedelic drugs and the author of one of the first written reports to the public about an experience with mescaline, which he conducted on himself in 1896.

Conteúdo: Ellis returned to England in April 1879. He had decided to take up the study of sex, and felt his first step must be to qualify as a physician. He studied at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School now part of King's College London, but never had a regular medical practice. His training was aided by a small legacy and also income earned from editing works in the Mermaid Series of lesser known Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. He joined The Fellowship of the New Life in 1883, meeting other social reformers Eleanor Marx, Edward Carpenter and George Bernard Shaw.  The 1897 English translation of Ellis's book Sexual Inversion, co-authored with John Addington Symonds and originally published in German in 1896, was the first English medical textbook on homosexuality. It describes the sexual relations of homosexual males, including men with boys. Ellis wrote the first objective study of homosexuality, as he did not characterise it as a disease, immoral, or a crime. The work assumes that same-sex love transcended age taboos as well as gender taboos.  In 1897 a bookseller was prosecuted for stocking Ellis's book. Although the term homosexual is attributed to Ellis, he wrote in 1897, "'Homosexual' is a barbarously hybrid word, and I claim no responsibility for it."  Ellis may have developed psychological concepts of autoerotism and narcissism, both of which were later developed further by Sigmund Freud. Ellis's influence may have reached Radclyffe Hall, who would have been about 17 years old

user: What type of medicine was Ellis involved in?

assistant: He had decided to take up the study of sex, and felt his first step must be to qualify as a physician.

user: what type of physician?

assistant: was the first English medical textbook on homosexuality.

user: was he Homosexual?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: why do into that field of study?

assistant: The work assumes that same-sex love transcended age taboos as well as gender taboos.

user: what does he do on the medicine side?

assistant: He studied at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School now part of King's College London, but never had a regular medical practice.

user: so he studied medicine but never had a practice becaue of the sex clinics?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: is he well known?

assistant: Ellis's influence may have reached Radclyffe Hall,

user: did he get awards?

assistant: was the first English medical textbook on homosexuality.

user: is that book still circulated today?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER