Krafft-Ebing

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German neurologist noted for his studies of sexual deviance (1840-1902)

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Both Krafft-Ebing and Freud assumed that sadism in men resulted from the distortion of the aggressive component of the male sexual instinct. Source: Internet

Faderman (1981), p. 241. Krafft-Ebing, who considered lesbianism (what he termed " Uranism ") a neurological disease, and Ellis, who was influenced by Krafft-Ebing's writings, disagreed about whether sexual inversion was generally a lifelong condition. Source: Internet

Krafft-Ebing considered procreation the purpose of sexual desire and that any form of recreational sex was a perversion of the sex drive. Source: Internet

Works Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing with his wife, Marie Luise. Source: Internet

History of behavioral treatment Both terms were introduced to the medical field by German psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing in his 1886 compilation of case studies Psychopathia Sexualis. Source: Internet

Principal work The first edition of Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), by Richard von Krafft-Ebing. Source: Internet

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