The book contains many case reports of "sexual criminals," many photographs of victims. "Psychoanalytical study" is a misnomer. The author gives few if any findings to indicate that such studies were made. Rather, he gives his interpretations which would not appeal to orthodox psychiatrists and which would not satisfy qualified psychoanalysts.Many of his statements are not in accord with the facts nor with the views of authoritative psychiatry. He states that "sexual psychiatry is not included in the curriculum of medical schools." He allows an attorney who writes his introduction, to state that most psychiatrists consider sex perverts afflicted with insanity; and that no particular effort is made to classify perverts. There are many statements which would make even little informed readers close the book.In many places it is difficult to find what the author is talking about. For example, "man stands in opposition to himself, in otherness than himself."Many cases are reported with questions and answers developed in interviews. There is nothing psychiatric or psychoanalytical in these interviews.This book adds little if anything to one's library of the many authoritative texts which have appeared in the last 40 years.
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