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Psychopathia Sexualis
The only authorised English adaptation of the last German edition revised by Krafft-Ebing. A medico-forensic study. Krafft-Ebing wrote and published several articles on psychiatry, but his book Psychopathia Sexualis became his best-known work.
Krafft-Ebing intended it as a forensic reference for doctors and judges and wrote in a high academic tone, noting in the introduction that he had "deliberately chosen a scientific term for the name of the book to discourage lay readers". He also wrote "sections of the book in Latin for the same purpose".
Despite this, the book was highly popular with lay readers and was printed and translated many times. It was one of the first books to study such sexual topics as the importance of clitoral orgasm and female sexual pleasure, consideration of the mental states of sexual offenders in judging their actions, and homosexuality.
For decades it was an authority on sexual aberrance and arguably one of the most influential books on human sexuality prior to Freud's works. Krafft-Ebing was both praised for opening up a new area of much-needed psychological study and condemned for immorality and justifying perversion.
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