The Sexual Instinct and its Morbid Manifestations from the Standpoint of Jurisprudence & Psychiatry

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Benjamin Tarnowski. The Sexual Instinct and its Morbid Manifestations from the Standpoint of Jurisprudence & Psychiatry

The Sexual Instinct and its Morbid Manifestations from the Standpoint of Jurisprudence & Psychiatry

Table of Contents

The Sexual Instinct and its Morbid Manifestations from the Double Standpoint of Jurisprudence and Psychiatry

Preface

PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION

Introduction

General Consideration

Original footnotes

Group A. PERVERSION OF THE GENESIC INSTINCT BASED ON HEREDITARY INFIRMITY. I. CONGENITAL CONTRARY-SEXUAL FEELING (CONGENITAL PEDERASTY)

II. Periodical Perversion of the Genesic Instinct (Periodical Pederasty)

III. SEXUAL PERVERSION OF EPILEPTICS (EPILEPTIC PEDERASTY)

Group B. ACQUIRED GENESIC PERVERSION

Original footnotes

Group C. COMPLEX FORMS OF GENESIC PERVERSION

List of Mr. Charles Carrington's Recent Publications

Bibliography

Index

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Benjamin Tarnowski

Published by Good Press, 2021

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seldom that the medical jurist can obtain the diaries of such individuals, their . corre- spondence or other interesting documents, such as are for instance to be found in the classical treatises of Caspar and of Tardieu. But such diaries and autobiographies show very prominently the usual fault of all productions of the kind, viz. the wish to excite interest, to exhibit their good aspects only. In this way the description becomes exaggerated, untrue and utterly deceptive. The clinical physician on the contrary has not to examine incriminated persons. The sufferer comes to him spontaneously to seek for advice. He hopes for assistance from the physician and in all sincerity confides his ailments to him, even in their slightest details. There is no room here for preme- ditated fraud or conscious un veracity. The physician is therefore in a position to distinguish the initial symptoms of an anomaly or of a malady, to follow its development and observe its progress during a number of years. By such means he obtains a complete, consistent and decisive view of the disease.

The representatives of two specialities are the most frequently consulted by such patients:

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