Psychopathia Sexualis

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 pathology includes the manifestations of abnormal sexual life in various forms and states of mental disturbance. The author discusses dementia, epilepsy, periodic insanity, nymphomania, and satyriasis. He also addresses pathological sexuality and its legal aspects that cover acts of rape, murder with rape, sodomy, cultivated pederasty, lesbian love, incest, necrophilia, or immoral acts on persons under care. The book also contains some case histories that illustrate such deviant sexual behavior. This book can interest behavioral scientists, psychiatrists, psychologists, students and professors in the sciences of human sexuality and behavior.

1;Front Cover;1 2;Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study;4 3;Copyright Page ;5 4;Table of Contents;14 5;PEEFACE TO THE TWELFTH EDITION;6 6;INTRODUCTION;7 7;PUBLISHERS' PREFACE;13 8;CHAPTER 1. FKAGMENTS OF A SYSTEM OF PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXUAL LIFE;18 9;CHAPTER 2. PHYSIOLOGICAL FACTS.;42 9.1;THE ACT OF COHABITATION;57 10;CHAPTER 3. ANTHROPOLOGICAL FACTS;59 11;CHAPTER 4. GENERAL PATHOLOGY;65 11.1;B.Anesthesia Sexualis (Absence of Sexual Feeling);78 11.2;C. Hyperesthesia (Abnormally Increased Sexual Desire);86 11.3;D. Paraesthesia of Sexual Feeling (Perversion of the Sexual Instinct);96 11.4;I. Sexual Inclination Toward Persons of the Opposite Sex. with Perverse Activity of the Instinct;97 11.5;An Attempt to Explain Masochism;217 11.6;Masochism and Sadism;230 11.7;Fetichism.The Association of Lust with the Idea of Certain Portions of the Female Person, or with Certain Articles of Female Attire;235 11.8;Antipathic Sexuality;299 11.9;A. Homo-sexual Feeling as an Acquired Manifestation in Both Sexes;303 11.10;B. Homo-Sexual Feeling as an Abnormal Congenital Manifestation;352 11.11;2. Homo-Sexual Individuals, or Urnings;381 11.12;3. Effemination;399 11.13;4. Androgyny;406 11.14;Diagnosis, Prognosis and Therapie of Antipathic Sexual Instinct;460 12;CHAPTER 5. SPECIAL PATHOLOGY;479 12.1;States of Acquired Mental Weakness;483 12.2;I. Dementia Consecutive to Psychoses;483 12.3;2. Dementia After Apoplexy;483 12.4;3. Dementia After Apoplexy of Head;484 12.5;4 Acquired Mental Weakness, Probably Resulting from Lues;484 12.6;5. Paretic Dementia;485 12.7;Epilepsy;486 12.8;Periodical Insanity;495 12.9;Nymphomania and Satyriasis;499 12.10;Melancholia;509 12.11;Hysteria;509 12.12;Paranoia;511 13;CHAPTER 6. PATHOLOGICAL SEXUALITY IN ITS LEGAL ASPECTS;515 13.1;1. Offence Against Morality in the Form of Exhibition;521 13.2;2. Rape and Lust-Murder;543 13.3;3. Bodily Injury, Injury to Property, Torture of Animals Dependent on Sadism;550 13.4;4. Masochism and Sexual Bondage;556 13.5;5. Bo
dily Injury, Robbery and Theft Dependent on Fetichism;560 13.6;Notes on the Question of Responsibility in Sexual Offences Caused by Delusion;566 13.7;6. Violation of Individuals Under the Age of Fourteen;569 13.8;7 Unnatural Abuse (Sodomy);578 13.9;(a) Violation of Animals (Bestiality);578 13.10;(b) With Persons of the Same Sex (Pederasty; Sodomy in its Strict Sense);588 13.11;Cultivated Pederasty;602 13.12;Lesbian Love;624 13.13;8. Necrophilia;628 13.14;9. Incest;629 13.15;10. Immoral Acts with Persons in the Care of Others as Wards; Seduction (Austrian);631 14;SUPPLEMENT;632 15;INDEX;641