Psychopathia Sexualis, with Especial Reference to the Antipathetic Sexual Instinct: A Medico-forensic Study

Psychopathia Sexualis was a landmark 1886 book about human sexuality by the German psychiatrist Richard von Kraft-Ebbing. Although Kraft-Ebbing's book heavily pathologized its subjects and regarded queer identity as a hereditary mental illness, it also engaged frankly with same-sex desire, sadomasochistic sexuality, and gender dysphoria and included hundreds of vivid case studies. As a result, it found many readers who would today identify as LGBTQ+ and who engaged with the book in a variety of unintended ways.

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Identifier: vh53ww26t
Collection: Rare Books
Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
Creator(s): Krafft-Ebing, Richard von
Contributor(s): Rehman, Francis Joseph
Date Issued: 1886
Genre: Books
Topic(s): Bisexuality
Eugenics
Gender dysphoria
Homosexuality
Medicalization
Sadomasochism
Resource Type: Text
Language: English
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