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Further proof that any, even the most detailed descriptions are not afraid of the man as visual images, could serve as a history of the global research Richard Krafft-Ebing mental disorders in the sexual segment of the relationship.
Yes, perhaps now some of you are not only interested in the photos that you see below, but also a little scared. Yeah, that could happen. Therefore, as a characteristic of the intelligence of the man I want to tell you about today, and whom you can see in these photographs, I would like to tell you very briefly the story that took place on may 2, 1896, at the Vienna society of psychiatrists and neurologists. Then there were a few people who were presented as fresh minds of world psychiatry. And after hearing the report "sexual etiology of hysteria" then a little-known Sigmund Freud, the founder of sexology, the greatest German psychiatrist, neurologist, forensic specialist and researcher of human sexuality Richard Fridolin Joseph Baron Krafft von auf Festenberg of Fromberg, better known as Richard von Ebing, but more often just Kraft-Ebing, spoke about the ideas of Freud in the sense that this is no more than "...a scientific fable, which will nevertheless sell very well, and which may in due time replace the Church to some, and education to others."
That's it.
Well, now about Kraft-Ebing and why and why these pictures were born, and why they are now quite rare.
So, born 14 Aug 1840 in a family of intellectuals and lawyers Richard, when he grew up, he entered the medical faculty of the Heidelberg University, where attended lectures by the oldest German psychiatrist Friedreich's, then he moved to Zurich, where in Zurich University attended lectures of the founder of psychiatry of Grisinger. There, in Zurich, in 1863, Kraft-Ebing received a degree. He chose delirium as the subject of his doctoral dissertation. In itself — very elegant, of course.
In 1864, Kraft-Ebing took a position as an assistant in the house for the mentally ill in Illenau. In the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1871 he received a summons and went to the front. After the peace - private practice and treatment of the wounded in Baden-Baden. In 1873 Kraft-Ebing accepted an invitation from the University of Graz. Here a large University clinic, opened in 1870, was placed at his disposal. His Department of psychiatry in Graz was considered the best in Austria after the University of Vienna - just one step below the highest position in psychiatry. Simultaneously with this high appointment, he becomes the Director of the regional institution for the insane Feldhof.
During the years of work in this institution Kraft-Ebing publishes a three-volume "textbook of psychiatry", which summarized the observations of 20 thousand patients. The textbook has been translated into many languages and stood 6 editions.
The greatest achievements can still be noted that in those same years, Kraft-Ebing was one of the first experts in the field of sexual pathology. Its function was to provide the courts with the medical history of the accused. Based on his judicial practice, Kraft-Ebing wrote a "Textbook of forensic psychopathology".
But Richard von Kraft-Ebing's most famous work is Sexual psychopathy, one of the first published studies of sexual deviations. Published in 1886, it immediately became widely known, withstood during the life of the author of 12 editions, repeatedly issued thirty-two languages, reprinted and now. Its distinctive feature is the huge number of cases of sexual deviations collected by the author, which allowed him to draw conclusions that have not lost their interest even now. In this book were published detailed medical reports about hundreds of sexual perversions. Materials of this kind have never been published before. Although Krafft-Ebing had written a considerable part of his material in Latin, so it was understandable only to doctors, it is still very fast translated, published, read sharply and publicly condemned in England for "publicizing dirty and disgusting material the face of a gullible society." In this book Kraft-Ebing describes in detail and for the first time introduces the concepts of sadism, masochism and bestiality.
But the most" terrible and disgusting " that society has seen in the book Kraft-Ebing — it is, of course, illustrations. After all, to illustrate one or another sexual deviation Krafft-Ebing himself created the necessary image and asked a friend photographer to capture it in this manner. These photos of the honorable audience to accept and could not since the third edition of the "Sexual psychopath" is beginning to emerge out of unique illustrations. Because they frighten the public so far. Inspire hatred and revulsion. With, that texts long have become scientific classics and frequent reference book psychiatrists and psychologists.
But visualization is always scarier than any statements.
