Psychopathia Sexualis (Latin for Psychopathies of Sexuality) is a book written in 1844 by the Russian physician Heinrich Kaan. In this work, Kaan transformed and reinterpreted the Christian sexual sins (homosexuality, masturbation etc.) as mental diseases. An English translation appeared in 2016.Heinrich Kaan's "Psychopathia sexualis" (1844). A classic text in the history of sexuality. Edited by Benjamin Kahan, translated by Melissa Haynes. Ithaca: Cornell University Press
Contemporary reviews were written by Maximilian von Heine,Medizinische Zeitung Russlands, No. 35, September 1844, p. 280 Heinrich EllingerAllgemeine Zeitschrift für Psychiatrie und psychisch-gerichtliche Medicin, Zweiter Band, 1845, pp. 685-699 and Gustav Blumröder.Jahrbücher der in- und ausländischen gesammten Medicin, Bd. 45, 1845, pp. 352-353
In 1861, Kaan published a continuation to his book in an article titled "Psychiatrische Skizzen" [Psychiatric Sketches].Homöopathische Vierteljahrschrift, 1861, 12. Band, pp. 81-99
References
External links Henrico Kaan, Psychopathia Sexualis. Lipsiae, Apud Leopoldum Voss, 1844 Original Latin text