Psychopathia Sexualis

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At that time, male homosexuality had become a criminal offense in Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, unlike lesbianism, although discrimination against lesbians functioned equally. After interviewing many homosexuals, both as his private patients and as a forensic expert, Krafft-Ebing reached the conclusion that both male and female homosexuals did not suffer from mental illness or perversion (as persistent popular belief held). A part of his research was focused on examining the relationships between psychiatry and criminal law. Already during his time in Strasbourg, he published his Fundamentals of Criminal Psychology, followed in 1875 by his first major work, Textbook of Forensic Psychopathology. Of the many publications he released, some of which saw multiple editions and became widely known, notable are his Textbook of Psychiatry (1st ed. 1879) and his most famous work Psychopathia Sexualis (1st ed. 1886), which through numerous, constantly expanded new editions, became the standard textbook on sexual pathology (see also: Sexology) of the 19th century. Krafft-Ebing saw and viewed women as basically sexually passive, and recorded no female sadists or fetishists in his case studies. Behavior that would be classified as masochism in men was categorized as "sexual bondage" in women, which was not a perversion, again because such behavior did not interfere with procreation. Child]. 13 His central role in the development of sexology was also evident from his editorship of the Handbuch der Sexualwissenschaften [ Handbook Volkmar Sigusch: History of Sexual Science. Campus, Frankfurt am Main et al., 2008, ISBN 978-3-593-38575-4, p. 191.

paradoxia, sexual excitement occurring independently of the period of the physiological processes in the generative organs

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Hoff-Unterrainer:" Krafft-Ebing Richard Frh. von". In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Vol.4, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1969, p.190f.(Direct links to " p.190", " p.191") This diagnosis allowed him to advocate for complete decriminalization of homosexuality, arguing that homosexuals were not responsible for their "malformation" and that homosexuality was not contagious. Although Krafft-Ebing was considered an authoritative figure in the field of forensic medicine at his time, this theory remained without consequences for decriminalization. Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing (August 14, 1840 – December 22, 1902) was an Austro-German psychiatrist. He published extensively on hypnosis, criminology, and sexual behavior. Some years later Krafft-Ebing's theory led other specialists in the area of mental health studies to reach the same conclusion. Blumenthal, A.L. 1981. Language and Psychology: Historical Aspects of Psycholinguistics. Krieger Pub Co. ISBN 089874167X

According to Volkmar Sigusch, he adopted the degeneration theories of his French research colleagues [5] and borrowed the term Sadism used in France since 1834 (Dictionnaire Universel de Boiste, eighth edition) [6] as the name for a pathology. The now well-known technical term " Masochism" was coined by him. [7] He also dealt extensively with Hypnotism and was one of the first to apply it clinically. Increasingly, he was called in as a forensic expert. In his early work, Krafft-Ebing inoculated general paresis patients with syphilis. Since they did not contract the disease, he concluded that they must have had it previously, developing immunity. In this fashion, Krafft-Ebing demonstrated the link between syphilis and general paresis prior to the "serological tests," such as the "Wassermann" used today. At the Moscow International Congress of 1897, Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing made popular the phrase "civilization and syphilization."Yet, it is for his book Psychopathia Sexualis that Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing has entered history. Kupferschmidt, H (1987), "Richard von Krafft-Ebing's "Psychopathia sexualis". Pornography or professional literature?", Schweiz. Rundsch. Med. Prax. (published 12 May 1987), vol.76, no.20, pp.563–9, PMID 3306869 Kennedy, H (2001), "Research and commentaries on Richard von Krafft-Ebing and Karl Heinrich Ulrichs.", Journal of Homosexuality, vol.42, no.1, pp.165–78, doi: 10.1300/J082v42n01_09, PMID 11991564, S2CID 42582792 paraesthesia, perversion of the sexual instinct, i.e., excitability of the sexual functions to inadequate stimuli His mother Klara Antonia Carolina was a daughter of the renowned Heidelberg legal scholar and defense attorney Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier. His paternal lineage was ennobled in the year 1770 by Empress Maria Theresia and elevated to the Baronial status in 1805 by Emperor Franz II (as Franz I, Emperor of Austria).