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1 day ago · When Richard von Krafft-Ebing coined the words “homosexual” and “heterosexual”, he knew EXACTLY what he was doing. By coining "homosexual" and "heterosexual," Krafft-Ebing sought to apply a clinical, neutral approach to sexual orientation.
5 days ago · If Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Albert Moll and other celebrated nineteenth century sexologists had already given one revolutionary answer to this question – which was that homosexuality et al. were essentially nothing more than different variants of the same general psychosexual disease or pathology of the sexual instinct – Freud’s own discussion is, revealingly, rather more sceptical or ...
Jun 26, 2024 · Generally considered the “father” of sexology, Richard von Krafft-Ebing evolved in his thinking away from the “nurture” argument over the decades, revising this argument in Psychopathia Sexualis over its dozen editions.
Jun 12, 2024 · Born on August 14, 1840, in Mannheim, Germany, Richard von Krafft-Ebing was a psychiatrist and neurologist whose work spanned several key areas of mental health and human sexuality. He is best...
1 day ago · In some cases, it was not acknowledged to exist. Sexologists Richard von Krafft-Ebing from Germany and Britain's Havelock Ellis wrote some of the earliest and more enduring categorizations of female same-sex attraction, approaching it as a form of insanity (Ellis' categorization of "lesbianism" as a medical problem is now discredited).
6 days ago · Freud learned a lot about homosexuality from psychiatrists and sexologists like Richard von Krafft-Ebing and Magnus Hirschfeld. He was also influenced by Eugen Steinach, a Viennese endocrinologist who transplanted testicles from straight men into gay men in an attempt to change their sexual orientation.
Jun 25, 2024 · The term homosexuality was first used in 1868, and the research of Richard von Krafft-Ebing two decades later in Psychopathia Sexualis (1886; trans. into English in 1892) portrayed homosexuality as a fixed sexual desire.
