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Harry Oosterhuis

Stepchildren of Nature

Krafft-Ebing, Psychiatry, and the Making of Sexual Identity

304 pages, 4 tables  6 x 9  © 2000
Series: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society

Cloth $42.50

ISBN: 9780226630595   Published December 2000

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I - Medical Science and the Modernization of Sexuality
1. The Emergence of Sexual Science
2. Forensic Medicine and Psychiatry
3. Classifying and Explaining Perversion
4. The Psychology of Sexual Desire
Part II - Extending the Boundaries of Psychiatry
5. Professional Struggles
6. Psychiatry's Panacea: Degeneration Theory
7. Professional Controversies
8. Alternatives: Psychological Therapies
Part III - Articulate Sufferers: Perversion and Autobiography
9. Sexual Disorder in the Asylum and in Court
10. Plato Was Not a Filthy Swine
11. Superior Degenerates
12. Orgies of Fantasy
13. The Comfort of Togetherness
14. For Science and Humanity
Part IV - Psychiatry and Sexual Identity in Fin de Siècle Culture
15. Autobiography and Sexual Identity
16. Romantic Love, Intimacy, and the Sexual Self
17. The Birth of the Modern Homosexual
18. Pressure-Cooker Vienna
Part V - Krafft-Ebing's Legacy
Bibliography
Index
Subjects



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