Stepchildren of Nature : Krafft-Ebing, Psychiatry, and the Making of Sexual Identity

Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1(18) PART I MEDICAL SCIENCE AND THE MODERNIZATION OF SEXUALITY 19(54) The Emergence of Sexual Science 25(12) Forensic Medicine and Psychiatry 37(6) Classifying and Explaining Perversion 43(13) The Psychology of Sexual Desire 56(17) PART II EXTENDING THE BOUNDARIES OF PSYCHIATRY 73(54) Professional Struggles 77(23) Psychiatry's Panacea: Degeneration Theory 100(13) Professional Controversies 113(5) Alternatives: Psychological Therapies 118(9) PART III ARTICULATE SUFFERERS: PERVERSION AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY 127(82) Sexual Disorder in the Asylum and in Court 131(8) Plato Was Not a Filthy Swine 139(13) Superior Degenerates 152(22) Orgies of Fantasy 174(11) The Comfort of Togetherness 185(10) For Science and Humanity 195(14) PART IV PSYCHIATRY AND SEXUAL IDENTITY IN FIN DE SIECLE CULTURE 209(64) Autobiography and Sexual Identity 215(16) Romantic Love, Intimacy, and the Sexual Self 231(10) The Birth of the Modern Homosexual 241(18) Pressure-Cooker Vienna 259(14) PART V KRAFFT-EBING'S LEGACY 273(14) Bibliography 287(24) Index 311