4-552: Psychopathia Sexualis: eine Klinisch-Forensische Studie ( Sexual Psychopathy: A Clinical-Forensic Study , also known as Psychopathia Sexualis, with Especial Reference to the Antipathetic Sexual Instinct: A Medico-forensic Study ) is an 1886 book by Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing and one of the first texts about sexual pathology. The book details a wide range of paraphilias and focuses on male homosexuality / bisexuality (the "antipathetic instinct" of
8-433: A person of the other sex". The Psychopathia Sexualis is notable for being one of the earliest works on homosexuality. Krafft-Ebing combined Karl Heinrich Ulrichs ' Urning theory with Bénédict Morel 's theory of social degeneration and proposed the theory that most homosexuals have a mental illness caused by degenerate heredity. The book had a considerable influence on continental European forensic psychiatry in
12-485: The first part of the 20th century. It is regarded as an important text in the history of psychopathology . In 2006, an independent film based on the book was made in Atlanta ; the film was titled Psychopathia Sexualis . This article about a sexuality -related book is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing Too Many Requests If you report this error to
16-404: The subtitle). The book coined the terms " sadism and masochism " as well as borrowing the term bisexual from botanical language. Masochism, which Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing focuses on at length, is, for example, defined as a particular erotic sensibility, in which the individual is, "in his sexual feelings and thoughts, dominated by the idea of being absolutely and unconditionally subjected to
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