Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2031

RICHARD VON KRAFFT-EBING (1840-1902) Psychopathia sexualis. Ferdinand Enke 1887 2nd ed. viii, 148 pp. 21.7 cm.

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It was this classic work on sex, first published at Stuttgart in 1886, that firmly established Krafft-Ebing's reputation but also caused him some difficulty because of the nature of the subject. His purpose in writing this book was to describe the pathological manifestations of the sexual life and to attempt linking them to underlying mental conditions. He wrote the work primarily for his professional colleagues and, to discourage lay people, used a scientific title, many technical terms, and translated the most revealing parts into Latin. Nevertheless, the treatise became extremely popular, went into many editions, and was translated into numerous languages.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 4944 (1st ed., 1886); Waller 5404