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Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing (full name Richard Fridolin Joseph Freiherr Krafft von Festenberg auf Frohnberg, genannt von Ebing; 14 August 1840 – 22 December 1902) was a German psychiatrist and author of the foundational work Psychopathia Sexualis (1886).
Richard, baron von Krafft-Ebing was a German neuropsychiatrist who was a pioneering student of sexual psychopathology. Educated in Germany and Switzerland, Krafft-Ebing was appointed professor of psychiatry at Strasbourg at the age of 32.
Richard Freiherr (Baron) von Krafft-Ebing was one of the great modern sexologists, and is remembered for his exhaustive catalogue of modern sexual desires and practices, the landmark Psychopathia Sexualis, first published in German in 1886.
Aug 14, 2021 · On August 14, 1840, Austro-German psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing was born. He was recognized as an authority on deviant sexual behavior and its medicolegal aspects.
The central argument of this article is that the modern notion of sexuality, as we experience and understand it today, took shape in the last two decades of the nineteenth century, especially in the works of the psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840–1902) and the neurologist Albert Moll (1862–1939). This modernisation of sexuality was ...
One of the most prominent psychiatrists in Central Europe prior to Freud, Richard von Krafft-Ebing started his career working in asylums, but the desire to escape the constraints of institutional psychiatry, which had become more akin to routine custodial care than to a gratifying scientific calling, drove him to broaden his professional territory.
Oct 21, 2022 · Richard von Krafft-Ebing was a founder of forensic psychiatry. His books such as “Fundamentals of criminal psychology,” “Textbook of forensic psychopathology,” and “The clinical basis of psychiatry,” were the most widely read German psychiatric textbooks of the late nineteenth century.
Papers of Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German-born neurologist and clinical psychiatrist, best known as the author of Psychopathia sexualis (1886), the first scientific study of sexual deviation.
Aug 15, 2012 · While best known in the anglophonic world for his work on sexual deviations and his advocacy for degeneration theory, Richard Krafft-Ebing (RKE) (1840–1902) was a major figure in late-19th century European psychiatry and author of the most widely read German psychiatric textbook of that era.
Richard von Krafft-Ebing was an influential Viennese psychiatrist who invented a massive taxonomy of non-procreative sexual classifications in his influential text, Psychopathia Sexualis with specific reference to the Antipathy Sexual Instinct: A Medico-Forensic Study (1886).
