Krafft-Ebing

[ kraft-eb-ing, krahft-; German krahft-ey-bingk ]

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Rich·ard [rich, -erd, rikh, -ah, r, t], Baron von, 1840–1902, German neurologist and author of works on sexual pathology.

Krafft-Ebing

/ ˈkraftˈeːbɪŋ /

Krafft-EbingRichard, Baron von18401902MGermanSCIENCE: neurologistMEDICINE: psychiatrist Richard (ˈrɪçart), Baron von Krafft-Ebing. 1840–1902, German neurologist and psychiatrist who pioneered the systematic study of sexual behaviour in Psychopathia Sexualis (1886)

Krafft-Ebing said that he never saw a case of true and reasonably well developed paranoia without hereditary taint.

The corresponding condition in women was by von Krafft-Ebing termed viraginity.

Moll, Krafft-Ebing and Hirschfeld have written at great length on sexual inversion.

Krafft-Ebing is wrong in maintaining that in all such cases the women are always neurotic.

Concerning sexual psycho-pathology I have followed the classification of Krafft-Ebing.

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