Stepchildren of nature
Subtitle: Krafft-Ebing, psychiatry, and the making of sexual identity
By: Harry Oosterhuis
Series: The Chicago series on sexuality, history, and society
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780226630595
Subjects: 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; Paraphilias
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-309) and index.