Krafft-Ebing
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noun
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Hirschfeld’s own predecessor, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, had claimed in the 19th century that homosexuality was natural sexual variation—and Hirschfeld believed that a person was congenitally born that way.
From Scientific American ● May 10, 2021
Some progress has been made, helped by committed individuals including Richard von Krafft-Ebing in the late nineteenth century, and William Masters and Virginia Johnson in the 1960s.
From Nature ● Oct. 3, 2017
He disapproved of Gandhi's preaching sexual continence; that, said the onetime student of Krafft-Ebing, would lead straight to neuroses.
From Time Magazine Archive
The first of the novel's two volumes becomes an elaborately breakneck, amorally funny chase that mixes the Marx Brothers with Krafft-Ebing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Krafft-Ebing, at the International Medical Congress at Moscow in 1897, detailed some experiments that he had made on paretics in Vienna.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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