Abstract

SIMIAO, Anna Rita Maciel  and  SIMANKE, Richard Theisen. History of the Concept Onanism in Psychiatry in the 18th and 19th centuries (Part 1). Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2021, vol.21, n.2, pp. 805-825. ISSN 1808-4281.  http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/epp.2021.61070.

This study intends to resume the history of the concept of masturbation with the focus on how it unfolded from a fundamental concept for general medicine to a later important concept in the context of the first medical and psychological studies of human sexuality, especially studies of sexual perversions, the main field explored in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The article, first part of a two-part study, intends to contemplate how the rise and decline of studies on masturbation in medicine took place, starting from the emergence of the concept of onanism and following through mid XIX century, when both concepts became important within the study of sexual perversions. The final point of this article is the work of Albert Moll, a famous German psychiatrist and one of the pioneers among human sexuality theorists to openly question the relevance of the concept of masturbation within the theories of sexuality.

Keywords : history of psychology; history of psychiatry; onanism; masturbation; sexual psychopathy; Albert Moll.

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