Stepchildren of nature

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"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.

subjects: History,  Psychiatry,  Sexology,  Sexual deviation,  Treatment,  Paraphilias,  Psychiatry, history,  LGBTQ history,  LGBTQ queer theory,  Psychology,  Seksuele afwijkingen,  Sexualité (psychologie),  Gender Identity,  Psychiatrie,  Identité sexuelle,  Sexologie,  Paraphilies,  Sozialmedizin,  Perversion sexuelle,  Sexuality,  Seksuologie,  Wissenschaftstheorie,  Abweichendes Sexualverhalten,  Histoire,  Psychologie,  Traitement

People: R. von Krafft-Ebing (1840-1902),  Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840-1902),  Richard von Krafft-Ebing

Times: 19th century,  19e siècle