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    Psychopathia Sexualis: How One Book Created Modern Sexuality

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    Explore how Krafft-Ebing's controversial 1886 text revolutionized our understanding of human sexuality, created the language we still use today, and sparked the evolution from moral condemnation to medical compassion in psychiatry.

    Psychopathia Sexualis: How One Book Created Modern Sexuality

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    The shift from describing acts to describing people was absolutely foundational to how we think about sexuality today. When you create categories, you create identities.

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    the key ideas and historical significance of Psychopathia Sexualis

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    Fonti di conoscenza
    History of Medicine Book of the Week: Psychopathia Sexualis (1886)
    link
    https://medicine.iu.edu/blogs/medical-library/2020/historical-book-of-the-week---psychopathia-sexualis
    Madness and Civilization
    Sexual Modernity in the Works of Richard von Krafft-Ebing and ...
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    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3381524/
    The Divided Self
    Echoes of Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis in Scientific Periodicals:  Sexual and Mental Pathology in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth Century Medical Discourse
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    https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-lea/article/view/16030
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    The Paradox of Medical Authority and Human Agency

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