Krafft-ebing


Richard
[rich-erd;; German rikh-ahrt] /ˈrɪtʃ ərd;; German ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), Baron von, 1840–1902, German neurologist and author of works on sexual pathology.
Historical Examples

Maudsley gives this instance as an example of the latter, while Krafft-Ebing gives it as an example of the former.
Religion and Lust James Weir

Casper, continues Krafft-Ebing, thoroughly diagnosed the phenomenon.
A Problem in Modern Ethics John Addington Symonds

Krafft-Ebing gives the details of five cases of “acquired” sexual inversion.
A Problem in Modern Ethics John Addington Symonds

It would be only her sickened imagination that made him something with a whip out of Krafft-Ebing.
The Trial of Callista Blake Edgar Pangborn

They adopt the habit, as Krafft-Ebing himself says, faute de mieux.
A Problem in Modern Ethics John Addington Symonds

Thus, Krafft-Ebing states that adult unmarried women between the ages of 25 and 30 often show nervous symptoms and peculiarities.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 (of 6) Havelock Ellis

(B) Ultimately, Krafft-Ebing attacks the problem of what he calls “the innate morbid phenomenon” of sexual inversion.
A Problem in Modern Ethics John Addington Symonds

It must be observed, in criticising Krafft-Ebing’s theory, that it is so constructed as to render controversy almost impossible.
A Problem in Modern Ethics John Addington Symonds

Krafft-Ebing calls attention to this relation between religious and sexual feeling in psycho-pathological states.
Religion and Lust James Weir

Krafft-Ebing considers that this error is due to the jurists, while the theologians have always distinguished correctly.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 (of 6) Havelock Ellis

noun
Richard (ˈrɪçart), Baron von Krafft-Ebing. 1840–1902, German neurologist and psychiatrist who pioneered the systematic study of sexual behaviour in Psychopathia Sexualis (1886)

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