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Atwater Collection #43. The last printing with 1856 on the title-page of an important period sex manual by Bronson Alcott's cousin. Alcott wrote numerous books and pamphlets concerning medical hygiene, physical education, and vegetarianism. See the many entries in the Atwater Catalogue. All the early printings of his sex manual were published anonymously.Alcott "devotes himself in this frequently reprinted work to the social and moral, as well as the physical consideration of the relations of men and women in marriage" [Atwater]. He counsels against premature marriage (25 for men & 21 for women), the dangers in courtship of male prurience, the harmful effects of fornication & masturbation; and discusses the importance of understanding sexual physiology, pregnancy, abortion, contraception, venereal disease, sexual hygiene, and related topics.
A pioneering and widely influential study of sexuality.
Grinstein 10466; Norman Catalog F88.
In his preface Freud avers that Bourke's book confirms that infants derive pleasure and interest from excremental functions and that the sexual and excremental functions are intimately connected.
OCLC locates only the Wellcome copy. Despite the Latin title, the text is in English. An anti-masturbation treatise. A second, slightly expanded edition appeared in 1822.
19th century American spiritualist and one of the founders of modern spiritualism, Davis began his spiritualist career in 1844, when in a semitrance he wandered away and awoke the next morning 40 miles from home in the mountains, where he claimed to have met two men that he later identified as Galen and Swedenborg. He began teaching and on a professional tour met a Dr. Lyon (a Bridgeport musician) and Rev. William Fishbough. Lyon was appointed his magnetizer and Fishbough his scribe. With their assistance Davis dictated The Principles of Nature, which was published in 1847 and went into many editions. In it he predicted the coming of the Spiritualist movement, which his book probably helped to bring into being as well as shaping the climate of popular opinion that made the emergence of Spiritualism possible, or even likely. His book, which articulated a radically dualist, Swedenborgesque mystical philosophy, made him famous. By early 1848 he no longer needed his magnetizer, since he was then able to self-induce his trance states, in which he made his predictions and medical diagnoses. He remembered his trance experiences and wrote his many books based on his trance experiences. The later books are largely elaborations on the themes of Harmonial philosophy announced in The Principles of Nature and systematically elaborated in the volumes of The Great Harmonia, which alone passed through 40 editions. See Melton's Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology, 4th ed., I: 301-302.In the present book, a follow-up to the fourth volume of Davis's Great Harmonia (which dealt with marriage and "the physiological vices and virtues"), Davis founds his mystical philosophy on a fundamental binary opposition, which he calls "male" and "female," with the former being the source of the material world and the latter of the spiritual. Davis posits a series of such related binary dyads: Feminine/Masculine; Matter/Energy; Goodness/Truth; Love/Intellect, which play out at every level from the cosmic to the human. Sex then, for Davis, is a cosmic principle for unifying opposites. The bulk of his text is devoted to working out the consequences of his metaphysical theory of Harmony for married partners and for society in general. Conjugal love turns out to be the foundation of society, with incorrect unions resulting in disease, crime, and death. Davis is, so far as I know, never regarded as a philosopher; yet he articulated a comprehensive, radically dualist, American metaphysics that was probably read by and influenced more 19th century Americans than all the academic treatises of philosophy combined.
Gay-Lemonnyer Bibliographies des ouvrages relatifs a l'amour III, 1286. OCLC records 7 copies total for all three editions: 5 of the 1861 at Cornell, Boston Public, U Penn, and the London Library & Cambridge Univ in the UK; and both the 1870 & 1871 at only the Getty and Cambridge Univ (making one wonder if that isn't an artifact of how their copies got recorded). A frank discussion of homosexuality in ancient Greece. The third and final edition, the three being separate printings, the first two of which were 1861 (Paris: J. Gay, 245 copies printed ) and 1870 (Brussels: J. Blanche, 150 copies), with different pagination for all three editions. First added to the 1870 2nd edition, the bibliographical notice is an erudite discussion of the literature on pederasty relating to the two editions published in 1652 of Alcibiade fanciullo a scola par Juann Wart.
OCLC locates copies in Anglo-America only at Cornell, NLM, and Wellcome. Demangeon was a Paris physician who had earlier published a widely read report of Gall's lectures. Contains a chapter on hermaphroditism.
Grinstein 6784. Deutsch's first monograph and the standard Freudian text on female psychosexuality until replaced some 20 years later by her two-volume treatise on the psychology of women.
Grinstein 8550. Fenichel's first (or second) book, published simultaneously with Hysterien und Zwangsneurosen.
- Contains 5 chapters + bibliography & index:
- 1. Perversionen.
- 2. Perversionsverwandte Neurosen: a) Sonstige neurotische Sexualstörungen b) Impuslhandlungen und Süchte
- 3. Die Schizophrenien
- 4. Die manisch-depressive Gruppe
- 5. Charakterstörungen
STC 10829; Wellcome I 2219; Hunter & Macalpine p. 118; Semelaigne Les pionniers de la psychiatrie française I, 47-49; Jackson Melancholia and Depression From Hippocratic to Modern Times, pp. 359-360; George Mora, "Renaissance Conceptions and Treatments of Madness", p. 247 IN Wallace & Gach's History of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology (Springer, 2008); Zilboorg A History of Medical Psychology, pp. 269-270. First French edition published 1612 in Toulouse as Traité de l'essence et guérison de l'amour; 2nd edition Paris 1623 as De la maladie d'amour ou mélancholie érotique. An Oxford scholar and musician, the translator, Edmund Chilmead (1610-1654), was appointed canon of Christ Church in 1632. Expelled in the 1640s, he moved to London and subsequently made his living as a translator, most notably of Campanella's Discourse Touching the Spanish Monarchy.
- An important book in the history of psychiatry and the first use in English of the term "erotomania," which was not in the title of either French edition. Ferrand practiced medicine in the French town of Agen. In 1604 he treated a "young Schollar of that city, who was desperatly gone in love." The young man "could neither enjoy his sleep nor take delight in anything in the world." The entry of a young serving-maid into the room turned out to be "the meanes of discovering the true ground of his Disease. For she coming in at the instant I was feeling his pulse, I perceaved it suddenly vary its motion, and beat very unequally; he presently grew pale, and Blushed againe in a moment, and could hardly speake. At the last seeing himselfe as it were taken tardy, he plainely confest the true Cause of this, his distemper …" [spelling & capitalization as in the original]. Described on pages 117-119, this is the first recorded case of a patient gaining insight through medical treatment.
- Writing with Galen's humoral categories in mind, Ferrand frequently appeals to classical authorities. Nonetheless, his own observations do have a way of creeping into his text. Ferrand applies the clinical method to medical afflictions produced by intense love, insisting on the importance of what we today call "insight." Though it seems obvious now, somebody had to do it first. Includes chapters on astrology; external & internal symptoms; various medical & pharmaceutical remedies for love melancholy; the diagnostic use of physiognomy & chiromancy, and of dream interpretation; "Whether Love-Melancholy be an Hereditary Disease;" "Whether or no, a Physitian may by his Art find out Love, without Confession of the Patient;" and "Of Melancholy, and its several Kinds." Stanley Jackson suggests in his discussion of Ferrand's book that the use of the term "erotomania" in contexts dealing with love-melancholy may stem from Chilmead's use of the term in the title of his translation. Though some scholars have suggested that Robert Burton significantly drew on Ferrand for his extensive discussion of "Love-Melancholy," Jackson thinks it likelier that both authors used the same sources. Burton did, however, own the 1623 French edition.
Band I is largely devoted to epilepsy; Bände II-IV contain many papers on the paraphilias and perversions. All volumes have multiple papers by Stekel.
Grinstein 10532; Grinstein Freud Bibliogrpahy 149; Norman Catalog F61 (this copy). Freud's essay first appeared in this fourth edition of Löwenfeld's book, the first edition of which appeared in 1899. A short but important text containing Freud's first extensive revision in print of the childhood seduction theory he had developed between 1895 and 1897. Translated in the Standard Edition VII: 271-279 as "My Views on the Part Played by Sexuality in the Aetiology of the Neuroses."
The earliest book in English we have seen on the subject, though Albert Hayes' more general 1868 book on sexual disorders includes material on impotence. An enlarged edition appeared in 1887 that also covered impotence in the female.
Without the third volume: Störungen im Sexualstoffwechsel mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Impotenz.
An important work for the history of sexuality in Europe.
Grinstein 10416; Grinstein Freud Bibliography 284. With a printed letter from Freud included in the Geleitwort.Grinstein 15330. Apparently a pious fraud, this is probably based on the anonymous author's own adolescence. The Introduction contains a long quotation from a letter of Freud's.
Grinstein 10416; Grinstein Freud Bibliography 284.
Mosak's Bibliography for Adlerian Psychology, L109 (L124 for the German original). Her lawyer-husband, Robert Lazarsfeld (1871-1940), assisted in preparing the cultural-historical section. Pages 383-446 deal with prostitution.
- Born "Munk"; her first name is often rendered as "Sophie." In 1901 she bore the later-to-be-renowned sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld. An Adlerian and associate of Adler's in Vienna, she worked between the two World Wars at the Marriage Advice Bureau, where women's marital and sex problems were dealt with — probably for the first time anywhere — exclusively by other women (though, as the book makes clear, quite a few men came for consultation as well). Patients were seen either in person or by given advice by letter. Lazarsfeld also managed an inquiry & advice correspondence set up by a Viennese newspaper. The Marriage Advice Bureau was shut down after the Nazis came to power in 1934, with Lazarsfeld emigrating later to the United States. Norman Haire called her "perhaps the most distinguished woman representative of the Adlerian School."
- As the DJ flap proudly proclaims, Lazarsfeld's book, based "on the actual experience of thousands of women, provides, for the first time, a manual written by a notable woman physician [actually, she wasn't, but was what we would call today a lay therapist] and written from the viewpoint of the woman as a person, rather than as a subsidiary to the man's gratification."
Ehrenfreund 1926 #370.
Norman Catalog F104. Contains the first appearance of Freud's "Libidotheorie" (pp. 296-298) and "Psychoanalyse" (pp. 377-383)."In 1923 Freud contributed these two expository essays to the Encyclopedia of Sexology, edited by the sexologist Max Marcuse, with whom Freud had corresponded earlier" [Norman Catalog].
The pioneering study of sexuality under laboratory conditions.
A pretty uncommon book in the first printing. Written in a dry, clinical style, the book was intended for a medical audience. Publisher and authors both were stunned by the book's becoming a runaway bestseller, with over 300,000 copies in print by 1970.
Disquisition by a Catholic priest on various forms of profane love with sections on adultery, bigamy, concupiscence, jealousy, etc.
Not in OCLC.
The pioneer history of prostitution.
The vapeurs was the neurosis of 18th century society women. "There were actually two fashionable neuroses during the second half of the eighteenth century: One, hypochondriasis, affected distinguished gentlemen and consisted of fits of depression and irritability. The other was vapeurs, the neurosis of distinguished ladies, who fainted and had varied sorts of nervous fits. These neuroses were described in detail in treatises that have been classics, such as the Treatise on Vapeurs by Joseph Raulin and that by Pierre Pomme" [Ellenberger p.187].
A Collection of five papers, none translated into English, plus the two-page introduction with the volume title.Contains: 1. Masturbation und Charakterbildung [originally part of the discussion in Die Onanie, 1912].2. Ein Beitrag zum Narzißmus (Das Ich im Traume) [Jahrbuch Bd III, 1911).3. Perversion und Neurose. [IZP Bd VIII, 1922].4. Die psychische Potenz. [a lecture given 16 March 1921 to the WPV].5. Idealbildung und Liebeswahl. [#4 & #5 1st published in IZP Bd. IX, 1923 under the general title "Zum Verständnis der Libidoentwicklung im Heiungsvorgang"].
OCLC locates copies only at Yale & Harvard.
Translation by Reich of the 1947 revised edition of Function of the Orgasm, with new revisions and corrections.
Grinstein 26828. Reich's second book.
Grinstein 26828.
OCLC records 6 copies: NY Public, UCLA, Harvard, UMBC, Bakken Library, & Oxford.
OCLC locates copies only at Countway, NY Acad of Med, and the Univ of Rochester.
Grinstein #27904.
Text in Dutch. Entirely devoted to De Roos's statistical study of sexual crimes.
The first psychoanalytic pathobiography.
Grinstein #28806.
Grinstein #28806.
Straßman was Professor of Legal Medicine at the University of Berlin and director of its Unterrichtsanstalt für Staatsarzneikunde. He founded the Society of Legal Medicine in Berlin in 1904. See Nemec Highlights in Medicolegal Relations #484.
An attempt at a more literal translation, with a two-page preface discussing the difficulties in translating Swedenborg's Latin. This translation first published Boston 1833."Scortatory love" is love of adultery. Contains sections on fornication, concubinage, the lusts of defloration, seducing innocents, etc.
Thorn also published a book on gonorrhoea in 1827.
The great German physiologist/anatomist here turned his attention to the structure of the sex organs. Ordentlich Professor der Anatomie at der Universität Leipzig, Weber edited the 4th edition of Hildebrandt's Handbuch der Anatomie des Menschen. His De tactu was one of the first important early- to mid-19th century contributions to experimental psychology and is a classic in the history of psychology. The greatest achievement of Weber and his two talented brothers with whom he worked as colleagues, "lay in applying the modern exact methds of mathematical physics to the study of the functioning of various systems of higher animals and man" [DSB XIV: 199].
Contains "'Peer Gynt' und Ibsen (Enthaltend einiges über Erotik, über Haß und Liebe, das Verbrechen, die Ideen des Vaters und des Sonnes)"; "Aphoristich-Gebliebenes. (Enthaltend die Psychologie des Sadismus und Masochismus, die Psychologie des Mordes, Ethisches, Erbsünde, etc.)"; "Zur Charakterologie (Enthaltend: Sucher und Priester, Über Friedrich Schiller, Bruchstücke über R. Wagner und den 'Parsifal')"; "Über die Einsinnigkeit der Zeit und ihre ethische Bedeutung nebst Spekulationen über Zeit, Raum, Wille überhaupt"; "Metaphysik (Enthaltend die Idee einer universellen Symbolik, Tierpsychologie [mit ziemlich volständiger Psychologie des Verbrechers] etc.)"; "Die Kultur und ihr Verhältnis zu Glauben, Fürchten und Wissen"; "Lietzte Aphorismen."
Grinstein 36290 (also citing a 1907 printing, which, so far as we can tell, does not exist). Wittels's second book, preceded by his 1904 Taufjude.Return to Gach Books home page