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