Traité clinique de psychiatrie Lot n° 9027

[Treatise on Psychiatry] The author, Richard von Kraft-Ebing (1840-1902), was a German-Austrian psychiatrist, author of a study of sexual perversions entitled Psychopathia Sexualis, published in 1886, which popularized the terms masochism and sadism, which have since passed into common parlance, in reference to the respective works of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and the Marquis de Sade. He founded a hospital near Graz where he treated the European elite, including the Empress's sister, Sophie-Charlotte of Bavaria, Duchess of Alençon. After studying medicine, he specialized in psychiatry and was a student of Wilhelm Griesinger in Zurich. He worked in several psychiatric institutions before concluding that their mode of operation did not allow him to understand the nature of the problems he was studying. He was one of the first to consider the notion of bisexuality, along with Havelock Ellis and Magnus Hirschfield, as a physical or psychic condition that introduces masculine and feminine aspects. (Wiki) Translated by Emile Laurent, this German treatise is intended as an open textbook: both for students and for practicing physicians. It contains numerous observations of clinical cases and leaves some room for the French theory of degeneration, of which it is a contemporary. In his work, the author lists many kinds of disorders and causes of insanity and proposes many remedies (including confinement and drugs, narcotics and sedatives). An important part of the book is also devoted to all kinds of neuroses. Nice copy with a bookplate of the psychiatrist FOUKS. Some small marginal annotations. Information: Richard Von KRAFFT-EBING Clinical treatise of psychiatry Evreux, A. Maloine, Editor, 1897. In-8, full cloth, title page, VI + 758 pages. Stains, dispatch, page 3-4 detached, some handwritten annotations and underlining in red pencil. Ex-libris of the psychiatrist FOUKS. Good condition.