German physician and neurologist born in Mannheim, Baden, particularly known for his studies pioneers on sexual deviance, now called paraphilia in academic circles and perversion of language colloquial. Educated in Prague, formerly Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic, and studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg, West Prussia, now Poland. After completing medicine, he specialized in psychiatry in Switzerland, worked in several nursing homes where treated homosexuals of both sexes with great interest, which at the time was considered a crime, and decided to be educator.
He was professor of psychiatry at Strasbourg (1872), Graz (1873) and Vienna (1889). He published several articles in psychiatry and became famous with the publication of a collection of stories and cases, Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), a revolutionary study in the science of sexual pathology that influenced writers and philosophers, as well as psychiatrists with their views, and still had a strong and long-lasting impact on the development of sexual perception. Modern. Also known for coining the term sadism, he was also a forensic expert in the Austrian capital and died in Graz.
He republished the article Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen (1901), removing the term anomaly as differentiation, becoming one of the first professionals to consider that homosexuals were normal people with a different sexuality, and he died the following year, in Graz, Austria. Unfortunately, his last conclusions were forgotten for years, in part because Sigmund Freud's theories captured the attention of most people. psychiatrists and who considered homosexuality a psychological problem, and in part because the baron had created sharp edges with the Catholic Church Austrian in associating the desire for sanctity and martyrdom with hysteria and masochism, in addition to boldly preaching that homosexuals were not perverts.
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